i just downloaded the torrent and let Ktorrent figure out whats close and whats not.
will run it overnight (wednesday night) and it should be there in the morning for anyone to pick up (if you bring a DVD or anything else that has 1 GB as storage) rgds, reinier On Sunday 22 April 2012 10:04:22 Koen Fasten wrote: > Hi, > > Reinier thanks for your offer. > > For linux mint there is a list of > mirrors:http://blog.linuxmint.com/?p=1889 I am not sure which one is > closest. From geographical point of view I think south Africa. But > this might be different from an internet infrastructure perspective. I > am open for comments on this. There are 2 mirros in SA: > ftp://ftp.is.co.za/mirror/linuxmint.com/iso/stable/12/linuxmint-12-gnome-dvd > -32bit.iso and > http://ftp.wa.co.za/pub/linuxmint/iso/stable/12/linuxmint-12-gnome-dvd-32bi > t.iso > > For dreamlinux 5 there are only three mirrors mentioned on the site. > One is in Twente. > http://ftp.snt.utwente.nl/pub/os/linux/dreamlinux/Dreamlinux-5.iso > They also post the checksum: MD5SUM Dreamlinux 5 Final ISO > 0dc8a36712ce62f1cc2afc12089daee7 > > I think both distros are dvd size. It goes with their philosophy that > everything should work out of the box so they cram as much software > and proprietary codecs on the distro as possible. > > Koen > > 2012/4/21, joachim Gwoke <[email protected]>: > > Message: 1 > > > >> Date: Fri, 20 Apr 2012 12:33:02 +0300 > >> From: Reinier Battenberg <[email protected]> > >> To: Uganda Linux User Group <[email protected]> > >> Subject: Re: [LUG] Distro wishlist > >> Message-ID: <3185700.z80ka0eG3K@mountlap14> > >> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" > >> > >> Hi, > >> > >> If you give me a direct URL, I can download about 1 CD a > >> night. > >> > >> Courtesy of Datanet. > >> > >> rgds, > >> > >> reinier > > > > Nice, > > so do we see a local distro repo taking shape? Clearly from the requests > > I saw earlier we still have challenges with heavy data downloads. > > > > > > regards > > Joachim > > _______________________________________________ > > The Uganda Linux User Group: http://linux.or.ug > > > > Send messages to this mailing list by addressing e-mails to: > > [email protected] Mailing list archives: > > http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ Mailing list settings: > > http://kym.net/mailman/listinfo/lug > > To unsubscribe: http://kym.net/mailman/options/lug > > > > The Uganda LUG mailing list is generously hosted by INFOCOM: > > http://www.infocom.co.ug/ > > > > The above comments and data are owned by whoever posted them (including > > attachments if any). The mailing list host is not responsible for them > > in > > any way. > > _______________________________________________ > The Uganda Linux User Group: http://linux.or.ug > > Send messages to this mailing list by addressing e-mails to: [email protected] > Mailing list archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ Mailing > list settings: http://kym.net/mailman/listinfo/lug > To unsubscribe: http://kym.net/mailman/options/lug > > The Uganda LUG mailing list is generously hosted by INFOCOM: > http://www.infocom.co.ug/ > > The above comments and data are owned by whoever posted them (including > attachments if any). The mailing list host is not responsible for them in > any way. -- rgds, Reinier Battenberg Director Mountbatten Ltd. www.mountbatten.net tel: +256 758 801749 twitter: @batje _______________________________________________ The Uganda Linux User Group: http://linux.or.ug Send messages to this mailing list by addressing e-mails to: [email protected] Mailing list archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ Mailing list settings: http://kym.net/mailman/listinfo/lug To unsubscribe: http://kym.net/mailman/options/lug The Uganda LUG mailing list is generously hosted by INFOCOM: http://www.infocom.co.ug/ The above comments and data are owned by whoever posted them (including attachments if any). The mailing list host is not responsible for them in any way.
