On Thu, 2003-08-28 at 19:09, Tom Brinkman wrote: > On Thursday August 28 2003 06:40 am, Adam Williamson wrote: > > > Why are games played on iso releases? > > > > What do you mean? Previously, ISOs were released on mirrors. Now, > > ISOs are released on mirrors and also on BitTorrent. Who's losing > > out? What is there to get angry about? Even if you don't like > > BT... > > I've been here for a while. Cooker since shortly before 7.2 > Need I remind you of the 9.1 RC3 iso's that were the finals ? > Didn't fool me. I was already uset'a cooker games as final is > approached.
Will you quit it with the clever-clever attempt to type out your Texan idiom? It's a pain to read and I can only imagine it's *hard* to read for the large percentage of non-native English speakers on this list. > I don't like my experience with BT, YMMV. To me tho, it's an > ever increasing trend into obscurity. Not mine, Mandrakes. Sort'a > like the usual trend lately with urpmi.update -a -f --wget on > cooker mirrors, includin sunsite and sunet, the primaries. OK, your post is a complete non-sequitur to mine. Your argument seems to be: you don't like BitTorrent, so Mandrake's release policy sucks. Never mind the fact that BitTorrent is only being used IN ADDITION to the existing distribution infrastructure, the FTP mirrors, so no-one's losing out. This was my argument in response to your original post. This reply adds precisely nothing to the substance of your argument, you just bitch and whine a bit more. What's the problem with the final-named-as-RC trick? They've used it - successfully - for the last couple of releases in order to allow all the mirrors to sync up before the download flood hits when people realise the final has been released. I don't see how you could possibly have a problem with that, given that the alternative is even more pressure on a few main mirrors while the other mirrors are unable to sync up and spread the load. -- adamw
