FC2T3 post date and FTP mirrors
seth vidal
skvidal at phy.duke.edu
Tue Apr 27 18:27:42 UTC 2004
> Is it not true that people who have had the development tree in their
> yum.conf or up2date sources effectively already have the content of the
> FC2T3 iso files if they have updated their systems since sometime around
> last Thursday (provided they are using a mirror that is able to keep in
> sync)?...and if they have updated since then they have a more up-to-date
> system than they will get by simply installing from the iso's?
installing from the isos has the benefit of testing the installer and
providing a clean testing environment to start from.
Rawhide/development is fc2t3 right now - but it could be nicer.
> Am I not correct in saying that having more people in the torrent is
> beneficial, but having numerous people needlessly directly downloading
> the iso's will just load down the mirrors and make life just that little
> bit worse for everyone?
downloading the isos from mirrors just saturates mirrors. Use the
torrent.
-sv
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