On Mon, 09 Jul 2001 11:49:23 +0200, Adrien Beau
<adr### [at] sycomorefr> wrote:

>Of course, downloading is another issue (see the 
>Slackware FTP...)

Slack did something utterly stupid. They released Slackware 8.0 to the
public before the mirror sites got it. I got my hands on it less than
15 minutes after the isos were uploaded and did quite well, but in a
matter of hours the connection dropped to 2k (over a 5Mb airlink).
None of the mirrors had it yet, some had parts. I left it alone and
waited for the mirrors. It took sunet.se and funet.fi two days to get
it, and we all know how fast they are. Now, if only Slack had waited
for the mirrors... I would have had 8.0 up and running now.


Peter Popov ICQ : 15002700
Personal e-mail : pet### [at] vipbg
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