Well, I got 7.3 downloaded. All three install discs and the docs disc. It took from 10:35 a.m. Monday to 8:16 a.m. Tuesday, and from a university mirror at that. By contrast, I've downloaded the first disc of 4.5 from freebsd.org in 45 minutes. I'm almost convinced RH did not predistribute this version to their mirrors. Most everywhere I checked did NOT have these isos, rather "most everywhere that let me login". Linux in general will have to rethink the distribution strategy soon, what with RH and SuSE now averaging about 5 discs and this sort of unruly ftp mirroring going on.
A couple of you guys have grabbed these isos and put them up on local servers and university pages. It'd be a great favor to publish links! -- -j John Beamon On Tue, 7 May 2002, john beamon wrote: > Date: Tue, 7 May 2002 22:29:45 -0500 (CDT) > From: john beamon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Reply-To: [email protected] > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [brlug-general] Red Hat 7.3 > > I want it right friggin now, too! I've been wanting it right friggin now > for right about 12 hours now. Still wanting disks 1 and 2 .... of what is > now a 3-disk distro, PLUS docs. I remember when Linux was suitable for > installation on a smallish system with slightly outdated hardware specs. > Those were the good ol' days. > >
