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Re: Next stable release: 13 CD's



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On Mon, Mar 15, 2004 at 09:25:18AM -0600, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote:
> Right on. But this presumes that all you do is download at 5 mins/MB 
> which you don't: the ISP goes down, while you are sleeping and the next 
> morning you find out.

That's why you use wget, so you can auto-resume and auto-retry.

> Unfortunately, even with persistent HTTP connections, the download speed 
> will not be as high as that of a single-file ISO download. Such speeds 
> can only be achieved with HTTP pipelining - the jigdo GUI application 
> will support pipelining.
> 
> So who knows how much more than 6 weeks if you use jigdo.

But jigdo supports pipelining.  And on a modem, we're talking about
speed loss to be only a couple seconds.  Modems don't take long to top
out.

> I know, I don't need the 13 CD's, but read my qeury further down on
> how you find that what you want is on a CD that you didn't get and
> the reason I want CD's is that I don't have to use the net.

OK, so you're creating your own restriction.

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