saw this review posted on slashdot of FC2

Chuck Mead csm at moongroup.com
Thu May 20 23:00:11 UTC 2004


Paul Iadonisi wrote:
> On Thu, 2004-05-20 at 14:15, Jeff Spaleta wrote:
> 
>>On Thu, 20 May 2004 12:58:12 -0500, King, John (Greg) (LMIT-HOU)
>><greg.king at lmit.com> wrote:
>>
>>>Anyhow, just an fyi so far I have had a pretty good run with FC2 although
>>>the up2date bug and dual boot bug are annoying.
>>
>>Up2date bug? Its not a bug if its not in bugzilla. If you are going to
> 
> 
>   I seriously doubt that this is a bug, as the author claims. 
> Immediately after release, all the mirrors are typically maxed out.  I
> was manually downloading the kdelibs* FC1 updates yesterday, and it took
> at least two, maybe three hours to get kdelibs-devel on a 1.1M-bit/sec
> link.  That rpm is only about 14MB.

He-he. I launched a series of wget -c commands to nab up the x86_64 ISO's
and it took 2 and a half days to get them from one of the mirrors!

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