Re: Free Software vs. Librous Software

Adam Ophir Shapira wrote:

> Eric G Ortego wrote:
>
>>
>> try bittorrent I got RH9 all 3 CD's on a slow(512k) cable in about 2 
>> hours. 
>
>
> All I know is that I tried downloading it at my parents' place,
> where they have a DSL connection to the Internet and the download
> kept timing out before reaching completion. 

I see, still  with bittorrent timeing out is not an issue, the load is 
spread out to anyone who has a part of the file your downloading so you 
get pieces from all over till you have the whole.

>
>
> The reason I tried it at my parents house rather than my own
> is because they have a better CD burner than I do. 

darn...got a birthday soon? lol

>
> Slackware, on the other hand, I was able to download at my
> parents house, and burn to CD. In theory, I in general like
> Slackware better than RedHat, but there's a few kinks I need
> to work out in Slackware before I can switch to that, and I
> haven't yet had a chance to get around to doing that. 

I like slackware more then redhat too but gentoo rocks!