[PLUG] Redhat 9 Source discs

Shahms King shahms at shahms.com
Tue Apr 1 14:17:02 UTC 2003


BitTorrent only has the install discs.

On Tue, 2003-04-01 at 14:14, Petcher, Danielx J wrote:
> SourceForge carried this news story this morning. I don't know whether
> they're just serving-up installation ISO's, or whether they've got the
> whole magilla.
> 
>  
> 
> *  Snag the Red Hat 9 ISOs, via Cash or BitTorrent
> Red Hat Linux 9 is out, and as of today the ISOs are officially
> available to Red Hat Network subscribers ($60/yr). Or, as of right
> now, you can grab the same ISOs using BitTorrent. For those unfamiliar
> with this free/Free P2P download protocol, an introduction follows,
> written by ololiuhqui. Update: 03/31 23:45 GMT by J: After roughly
> four hours, BitTorrent has transferred over 500 full copies of all 3
> ISOs, and a total of over 1.5 TB, at 170 Mbytes/sec. Thanks to the
> more than 3000 people who helped each other download the data, and
> especially to the more than 200 who got full copies and still have
> their clients open, to keep serving data to everyone else :) 
> 
>  
> 
> -djp
> 
> http://folding.stanford.edu - the brain you save may be your own!
> 
>  
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> 
> > From: alan [mailto:alan at clueserver.org]
> 
> > Sent: Tuesday, April 01, 2003 5:18 AM
> 
> > To: plug at lists.pdxlinux.org
> 
> > Subject: [PLUG] Redhat 9 Source discs
> 
> > 
> 
> > Has anyone been able to download the Redhat source RPM discs for
> Redhat 9
> 
> > yet?
> 
> > 
> 
> > Redhat network servers are pretty much unusable at this point.
> 
> > 
> 
> > I have the install discs, but I need the source RPMS.
> 
> > 
> 
> > Anyone?
-- 
Shahms King <shahms at shahms.com>





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