Why is this list so quiet?

[Jim Cornette]

Douglas Furlong wrote:
> On Sun, 2004-07-18 at 13:21 -0500, Gerry Tool wrote:
> 
>>I have been testing RH/Fedora releases since RHL 7.3.  The mailing lists 
>>for testing have always been very lively, until this release.  There 
>>seem to be very few testers posting, and even fewer community developers 
>>responding.  Is that just my false impression?
>>
>>I'm concerned that this release and its successors will not receive 
>>enough criticism to fix bugs that should be caught before the final 
>>release of FC3.
> 
> I can think of one reason.
> 
> I have just tried to install (via http) using some UK/IE mirrors that I
> know of, and none of them are completely upto date it would appear.
> 
> One of the problems with the previous testing releases was the mirrors
> being out of date and it being a challenge just to find the right mirror
> to use.
> 
> I would have thought waiting almost a week after the full release would
> have resulted in me avoiding these problems but apparently not.
> 
> 
> 

I dowloaded the isos from ncsu on the release date. These seemed to be 
up2date and took less than 4 hrs to download on that date.

This is an ftp mirror and I've installed from this before w/ success. 
Usually, they are a day behind. I was surprised that they were current.

If no luck, try bittorrent with the program installed and the following 
command in a shell where you want the isos installed. I got the 
bittorrent from Fedora Extras. This version works nicely.

  btdownloadcurses.py --max_upload_rate 350 --url 
http://torrent.dulug.duke.edu/FC3-test1-binary-i386.torrent

This should be one commandline.

I've been giving up bits w/ the images that I ftped down from ncsu since 
release date. I only get upload speeds around 20 kps/s though. (no time 
downloading.) The disks md5summed fine and passed media tests for all 
disks when burned.

Jim