I thought i'd try this out, and chose postfix as a trial. the process is dreadful, and the results are worse.
1. click on the link david posted. (http://tucows.inspire.net.nz) 2. in the search box at the top enter "postfix" and choose "linux" in the drop down box, click 'go' 3. get diverted to the tucows.com site, and postfix is the top 1 of two packages shown. 4. click on postfix and get a page to choose where to download from (doh, don't they realise my IP is in a nz netblock and that i clicked through from their only nz mirror?) 5. finally get to a download page and find a shiny postfix-1.1.1 there waiting. trouble is the latest stable is 2.0.19 !! 1.1.1 seems to date from around 2002. I am sure that there have been security fixes since then, and certainly improvements in the 2.0 series. hmmm try again. kde is shown as version 3.1.2, whereas the release version is 3.2.1. Also, click on the download link and you go to kde.org, and a page telling you that you are in NZ but that there is no nz mirror for kde. What? I thought that tucows.inspire.net.nz were supposed to be a mirror??? so i conclude that tucows is hopeless, and go back to freshmeat :-) I used to download a lot of windows shareware/freeware/trialware from tucows before i discovered linux, and its not a bad service. But I could not recommend it for linux users. On Wed, 14 Apr 2004 09:14:10 +1200 David Kirk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I'd like to be able to go a page where I put in the type of > > machine and OS > > I'm using then get a complete list... I guess that's what > > download.com is > > for but that's not a local mirror is it? > > Tucows does all that. They have a local mirror at > http://tucows.inspire.net.nz > > > Later > > David Kirk -- Nick Rout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
