LWN: Comments on "Presenting FEDORA CORE 2"

Presenting FEDORA CORE 2

Klavs — Fri, 21 May 2004 16:33:53 +0000

I would gladly (actually prefer) to use bittorent - BUT (and its a big BUT) - I can find no BT clients that supports bandwidth limiting of my download (only of upload) !

This means that unless I implement trafic control (and that takes time I don't have) everything else on my internet line, will be affected while I download a 4gb DVD iso :(

For this reason I'm forced to use FTP mirrors - and am seriously considering looking into the python code of btdownloadheadless.py and see if it isn't simple to apply the code used for upload-limiting, on the download rate too. But seeing as no one has done this, it probably isn't :(

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maceto — Tue, 18 May 2004 20:53:28 +0000

Yes I have tested, and by the way- relase notes say that my mobo don`t work, work in debian,suse 9.1 and Mandrake- So they even know it- that`s wat`s bugging me, they puch for a release without even fixing major issues.

Cause alot use Vmware to test in Corp world, and the only "distro" I have had any problems with is Fedora 1 and 2

and thanks for the link, so I may be able to test it at least

Xorg

zlynx — Tue, 18 May 2004 20:02:30 +0000

I like saying it "Zorg." It makes me think of the Fifth Element movie.

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sopwith — Tue, 18 May 2004 17:30:00 +0000

Please use only the main torrent (torrent.dulug.duke.edu). Given all the crazy routing on the Internet, using the other ones is likely to just increase transatlantic traffic, and splitting the download clients across different torrents will decrease the download speed for individuals.

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keithmo — Tue, 18 May 2004 16:12:55 +0000

See my kerneltrap blog entry for detailed instructions on getting Fedora Core 2 Test 3 running under VMware Workstation 4.5.1. I will verify they work with the released Fedora Core 2 as soon as I can download the .ISO files.

Xorg

vmlinuz — Tue, 18 May 2004 16:07:51 +0000

I would always say "ecks dot org", but maybe that's just me...

Xorg

cjdewey — Tue, 18 May 2004 15:55:05 +0000

How do you guys read it: "ecks dot org", just "ecks org", or "zorg"?

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denials — Tue, 18 May 2004 15:42:49 +0000

I don't normally see too many trolls on LWN...

Did you test any of the release candidates? Did you open any bugs and help developers debug the problems with your hardware?

If you don't participate in the development and testing efforts, you have no right to complain about the release.

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maceto — Tue, 18 May 2004 14:58:16 +0000

UUURRRGHHH first it don`t support my motherboard, secondly keyboard don`t work in vmware, works on and off, x don`t start, the x config uttility only outputs an error. SO GREAT JOB FEDORA GREEEEAT
Debian,mandrake and suse works FINE

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nigelm — Tue, 18 May 2004 14:46:01 +0000

There are EU & US torrents (to try and cut down on traffic bouncing across the atlantic). There were supposed to be AUS torrents too but not heard about them.

The full set of torrent URLs that I know about are:-

AMERICA TORRENT: Duke University, North Carolina, USA
http://torrent.linux.duke.edu/tettnang-binary-i386-iso.torrent
http://torrent.linux.duke.edu/tettnang-i386-DVD.torrent
http://torrent.linux.duke.edu/tettnang-src-i386-iso.torrent
http://torrent.linux.duke.edu/tettnang-binary-x86_64-iso.torrent
http://torrent.linux.duke.edu/tettnang-x86_64-DVD.torrent
http://torrent.linux.duke.edu/tettnang-src-x86_64-iso.torrent

EUROPE TORRENT: Univerzita Karlova v Praze, Czech Republic
http://sunsite.mff.cuni.cz/fedora-torrent/tettnang-binary-i386-iso.torrent
http://sunsite.mff.cuni.cz/fedora-torrent/tettnang-i386-DVD.torrent
http://sunsite.mff.cuni.cz/fedora-torrent/tettnang-src-i386-iso.torrent
http://sunsite.mff.cuni.cz/fedora-torrent/tettnang-binary-x86_64-iso.torrent
http://sunsite.mff.cuni.cz/fedora-torrent/tettnang-x86_64-DVD.torrent
http://sunsite.mff.cuni.cz/fedora-torrent/tettnang-src-x86_64-iso.torrent

[Cut and paste from Jakub's anounce yesterday]

Many of the mirrors have also put up BT clients into thise set of torrents so that there are seeders available for the startup. As ever please leave your client running after the download to give other people a push.