Michael Schmarck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> `Release grml 1.1-rc1 - Codename Skunk' >> >> Unless you want to use the baloney bit torrent download > > What's baloney about a bittorrent download? It's a good way to save > on bandwidth for the one, who offers a download. It's also not more > insecure than a plain old http or ftp download - in the contrary, > it's at least as secure.
Sorry that was a pretty dumb thing to say... I do think its baloney but saying that guaranteed someone would be rubbed the wrong way. Not a smart move in a request for help... To me, bitorrent is just more piddling around. You have to install something extra (don't you?) to use it. Its not fast at all. For the kind of size we are talking a dsl connection should handle normal ftp or any http download in a matter of a few minutes. I pay for dsl exactly so I don't need to mess around with downloads... I guess I assumed someone offering such a download would have the necessary bandwidth. I wasn't concerned at all about security. Not to put too fine a point on it but: Plain old ftp should be all I need for something like that download. >> it appears >> none of the servers listed have that version. > > That might have been the case 5 hours ago, but right now, already > the 1st server has it. Yes, at least one there has it now.... thanks -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
