On Saturday 22 July 2017 23:13:24 Cindy-Sue Causey wrote: > On 7/22/17, Long Wind <longwind2...@gmail.com> wrote: > > I have tried many mirrors > > some from US, and ftp.au.debian.org and ftp.ca.debian.org and ... > > > > all are slow > > is that because i use device name eth1?? > > > > the strange thing is during "apt-get update" all mirrors are quick > > when I use "apt-get install" all mirrors becomes slow > > > > i regret i install stretch > > (i am happy with jessie) > > I've been having the same issue with Internet access (via dialup), but > the experience is across most of the entire [Net] for me. It's been > maybe a week or so that it has been very notable. It's been so bad a > few times that I've dipped into my reservoir of not so pretty words a > couple times along the way...........
You are aware I hope, that the sun cut loose with a good sized solar flare, and that communications all over the planet have been somewhat disrupted since around this past Wednesday? Not a Carrington sized event, but disturbing. You can google for Carrington Event, or look it up on wikipedia. Another like that one and the whole planet will be dark at night until we can rebuild it all. > > Ditto what Felix said about running both until you see if you like the > newest edition. I'm actually about to deliberately debootstrap Stretch > soon again just for practice. It will be my backup since I moved to > Buster during the newest release. > > I consciously keep both because I always have it in mind that maybe > someone will have a problem with the previous release and maybe, just > maybe I'll be able to duplicate their issue to try to help out. I > actually was able to do that a couple months back where no one else > could duplicate a user's error, and my setup actually did throw the > user's same issue. *yay* :) > > Cindy :) Cheers, Gene Heskett -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) Genes Web page <http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene>
