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tom
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 Posted: Fri May 10, 2002 4:34 pm Post subject: thoughts on gentoo after a few weeks of use |
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gentoo ROCKS!!!!!
thanks all. this is -it-.
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Jeevz
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| Posted: Fri May 10, 2002 4:42 pm Post subject: |
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| haha... another one in. |
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Scandium
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| Posted: Fri May 10, 2002 5:11 pm Post subject: |
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hehe well yes 
that's really true...
There are only 2 more things in my opinion...
Portage needs some tweaks but that will be fixed almost completly with 2.0 I guess.
more download mirrors
It suckes if you have 2mbit/s and you dload with 40k/sec at best all the time especially when emerging 20mb+ things like xfree, kde and so on |
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Coogee
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| Posted: Fri May 10, 2002 5:28 pm Post subject: |
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It suckes if you have 2mbit/s and you dload with 40k/sec at best all the time especially when emerging 20mb+ things like xfree, kde and so on |
I'm also from Germany and I use the mirror in Norway (http://gentoo.linux.no) and I usually get the max. DSL rate (> 80k/sec).
I hope it will not change after this posting |
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TwoSlick
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| Posted: Thu May 16, 2002 2:02 am Post subject: |
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| Quote: | I usually get the max. DSL rate (> 80k/sec).
I hope it will not change after this posting |
Heh.... I love living on a university... I usually get between 450K/sec and 500K/sec
20 Meg file?? No problem.. Just wait one minute.  |
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philgrr
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| Posted: Sat May 18, 2002 8:38 pm Post subject: Simply the best... |
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| Scandium wrote: | hehe well yes
It suckes if you have 2mbit/s and you dload with 40k/sec at best all the time especially when emerging 20mb+ things like xfree, kde and so on |
Hehe, you should try using a 56K modem - welcome to life in the s - l - o - w lane 
Still, it means I'm pretty certain of what I want to download before I go ahead and do it. Now, if I could just tap into the 5MB pipe at work...
And Gentoo is well worth the download time. It's slick, it's fast, it's simply the best thing to happen to Linux for a long time. |
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billatq
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| Posted: Fri Jun 14, 2002 12:59 am Post subject: |
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| Quote: | Heh.... I love living on a university... I usually get between 450K/sec and 500K/sec
20 Meg file?? No problem.. Just wait one minute |
Only 500k/s?
I usually get somewhere around 1m/s down. |
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craftyc
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| Posted: Fri Jun 14, 2002 10:00 am Post subject: |
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It suckes if you have 2mbit/s and you dload with 40k/sec at best all the time especially when emerging 20mb+ things like xfree, kde and so on |
I only have a 512 kbps (I think my ISP's lying) line and I always get around 60K/s.
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kraylus
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| Posted: Sat Jun 15, 2002 8:51 am Post subject: |
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your ISP probably meant kiloBITS per second, not bytes. big difference. if unsure, give them a call to find out
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orkid
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| Posted: Sat Jun 15, 2002 4:05 pm Post subject: |
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| Usually, kbps is bits, kBps (or KBps) is bytes. Dunno where I heard this, but I believe it's true. |
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delta407
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| Posted: Mon Jun 17, 2002 5:09 pm Post subject: |
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Bah, I just write "kilobit" or "KB/s" -- no one gets confused that way  |
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craftyc
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| Posted: Mon Jun 17, 2002 6:00 pm Post subject: |
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What I meant was 60 KB/s (What my download manager shows), does not quite divide nicely into 512 kilobit/s (What my ISP says).
I want all my bandwidth!
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