hello there, i am trying to convert a bunch of friends to using Debian GNU/Linux as opposed to the unmaintained Redhat... a major selling point being the constant maintenance and security updates by FTP and HTTP. unfortunately all of the would-be-converts are in a university network which has bandwidth allocation caps on FTP and HTTP. for example: a typical FTP download (to a machine 5 miles away) goes at ~2K/s, even when the undergrads have all gone home and are not clogging the resources, whereas an scp (across a hemisphere and a timezone) goes ~200K/s. the good news being that port 22 is not capped: i was wondering if there were SFTP sources equivalent to the FTP lists? (or any other non ftp/http methods which may solve this problem) cheers, Sam -- Free High School Science Texts http://savannah.nongnu.org/projects/fhsst Sam's Homepages http://fommil.homeunix.org/~samuel http://www.ma.hw.ac.uk/~samuel
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