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.


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Peter Popov wrote:
> 
> Now, if only Slack had waited
> for the mirrors... I would have had 8.0 up and running now.
> 

Then again, it probably would've been slashdotted anyway...

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On Tue, 10 Jul 2001 01:54:02 +0300, Peter Popov wrote:
>On 5 Jul 2001 18:39:51 -0400, ste### [at] zeroppsuklinuxnet (Steve) wrote:
>
>>This means a kernel that will build with GCC 3.0
>
>I know it compiled with egcs 1.1.2 fine as 2.4.6 is what I am running
>now (and slowly replacing ipchains with iptables :) ). To try to
>compile it with gcc 3.0 ... I'd rather e-mail Santa.

It comples fine, no problems there, it's choosing the right sections
to include at configure time that's caused me the problems so far. 

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On Mon, 09 Jul 2001 22:56:44 +0300, Margus Ramst wrote:


>I did try building kernel 2.4.6 with gcc 3.0 BTW, but the result was
>decidedly not stable.

[snip]

I've found the performance of 2.4.6 to be much better tna 2.2.14 which
I have at the moment, the multitasking is so much quicker, and programs
open so much faster (as I've seen when booting with 2.4.6). 

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Peter Popov wrote:
> 
> Slack did something utterly stupid. They released Slackware 8.0 to the
> public before the mirror sites got it.

As Margus noted, there's always a Slashdotter hanging around
every FTP sites and that notifies the world as soon as something
happen.

The correct thing to do would have been to build the ISO on
another computer (Pat's ADSL box?) and give it to some mirrors
from that location, or, more easily done, put up a separate
FTP holding just the ISO, without anonymous access, so that
only authorized mirrors could get it.

But I think Pat was too tired to do anything else than
"upload the ISOs - post announcement - go to bed".

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Steve wrote:
> 
> I've found the performance of 2.4.6 to be much better tna 2.2.14 which
> I have at the moment, the multitasking is so much quicker, and programs
> open so much faster (as I've seen when booting with 2.4.6).
> 

Well, I'm running 2.4.5 right now; it's certainly better than 2.2
kernels with most stuff, but I've heard it has some serious bugs in its
VM code so I guess I really should do the upgrade.

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