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is it just me or is that thing super fast?
it is downloading a linux distro 700mb very fast !
it is downloading a linux distro 700mb very fast !
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Hmmm... What I don't get is why you use a fileshare prg. to download a linux distro. Most distros are free to download from various sites around the world. And the ones you can't download are NOT free.
Regarding your claim for speed. When I dl the latest mandrake distro I get 99% speed from one of mandrakes mirrors(ftp).
Regarding your claim for speed. When I dl the latest mandrake distro I get 99% speed from one of mandrakes mirrors(ftp).
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What?
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The whole concept of Bittorrent is for distributing large files like Linux ISOs. It spreads the load around so one server does not get hammered.
http://bitconjurer.org/BitTorrent/introduction.html
http://bitconjurer.org/BitTorrent/introduction.html
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ThePerfectCore said:
Not all Distros are free.
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Maybe not free as in beer because people who work tyo put a distro together kind of enjoy being paid for their labor, but the source is always free if requested. Still almost all of them are free to download and install as much as you want unlike M$. It's the optional books and tech support that cost a little.
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{PMS}fishy said:
Thats what I thought. I know basically nothing about Linux, but I was under the impression not all of them were free. Thanks for backing me up.
I was just saying that I hope its free because absolutely no warez/piracy is allowed here.
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When I download my ISOs I just use getRight or something.. easy way to get 300+kbs
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There are a few that aren't free per se. I believe to actually get CDs w/ Gentoo on them you have to pay up (for x86-32, anyways. I know you can get IA or Sparc for free).
Bittorrent is a great resource. The only real problem w/ it is that it lacks a centralized search feature, due to the serverless nature of it.
Bittorrent is a great resource. The only real problem w/ it is that it lacks a centralized search feature, due to the serverless nature of it.
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And bittorrent is not serverless. You cannot upload a file without a server functioning as a tracker. You can continue to download a file from users you've connected to if the tracker goes down, but you won't be able to connect to new users if you can't connect to the tracker because your bittorrent client can't see them unless the tracker tells it that they're there.
I wish SuSE was free. It looks damn good.
I wish SuSE was free. It looks damn good.
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Isohunt isn't a warez site. It just searches all active bittorrent trackers. It's like saying Google is warez because you can find sites like gamecopyworld on it and things of that nature.
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^^^^ Nice. Any idea what's missing out of it?
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zip22 said:
That was it. It wasn't Gentoo, it was SuSE.
FTP install kinda turned me off of that, actually. That's why I never tried SuSE.
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