[brlug-general] Red Hat 7.3

[Mat Branyon]

what is this attachment that i got with this email?  winmail.dat???

On Wed, 8 May 2002 13:10:20 -0500
"Thomas R. McClanahan" <tmcclanahan at ldi.state.la.us> wrote:

> I started the download for Disc1 and 2 Monday evening from RH, they are
> still running and are only up to about 90m. I am told one of the guys at the
> office has them. I will let you know.
> 
> Thomas R. McClanahan
> thomasm at sparkhound.com
> 
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: General-admin at brlug.net [mailto:General-admin at brlug.net] On Behalf Of
> john beamon
> Sent: Wednesday, May 08, 2002 11:40 AM
> To: General at brlug.net
> Subject: Re: [brlug-general] Red Hat 7.3
> 
> Well, I got 7.3 downloaded.  All three install discs and the docs disc.  
> It took from 10:35 a.m. Monday to 8:16 a.m. Tuesday, and from a university
> mirror at that.  By contrast, I've downloaded the first disc of 4.5 from
> freebsd.org in 45 minutes.  I'm almost convinced RH did not predistribute 
> this version to their mirrors.  Most everywhere I checked did NOT have 
> these isos, rather "most everywhere that let me login".  Linux in general 
> will have to rethink the distribution strategy soon, what with RH and SuSE 
> now averaging about 5 discs and this sort of unruly ftp mirroring going 
> on.
> 
> A couple of you guys have grabbed these isos and put them up on local 
> servers and university pages.  It'd be a great favor to publish links!
> 
> -- 
> -j
> 
> John Beamon
> 
> On Tue, 7 May 2002, john beamon wrote:
> 
> > Date: Tue, 7 May 2002 22:29:45 -0500 (CDT)
> > From: john beamon <jbeamon at cox.net>
> > Reply-To: General at brlug.net
> > To: General at brlug.net
> > Subject: Re: [brlug-general] Red Hat 7.3
> > 
> > I want it right friggin now, too!  I've been wanting it right friggin now 
> > for right about 12 hours now.  Still wanting disks 1 and 2 .... of what is
> 
> > now a 3-disk distro, PLUS docs.  I remember when Linux was suitable for 
> > installation on a smallish system with slightly outdated hardware specs.  
> > Those were the good ol' days.
> > 
> > 
> 
> 
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