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From: Grant on 23 Sep 2009 22:05
On Wed, 23 Sep 2009 15:39:35 -0700 (PDT), wexfordpress <john(a)wexfordpress.com> wrote:

>On Sep 23, 6:31 pm, Grant <g_r_a_n...(a)bugsplatter.id.au> wrote:
>> On Wed, 23 Sep 2009 13:38:09 -0700 (PDT), wexfordpress <j...(a)wexfordpress.com> wrote:
>>
>> ...
>>
>> > If bittorrent is now the standard way to get Slack it might help to
>> >put that package in with the main distro.
>>
>> bittorrent is no more standard than ftp or rsync.  I use rsync to
>> get the source file tree -- only way to track -current, also good
>> for getting the updates, and write own DVDs if required.  
>>
>> Grant.
>> --http://bugsplatter.id.au
>
>I only note that the Slack site seems to push for bittorrent.

Well torrents are easier to setup tracking and seeders than 'formal'
mirror sites, and slackware.com don't keep the mirror list up to date,
so one needs to explore local mirror sites.

> BTW the
>current estimate on my download.
> is one hour and seven minutes. So I may yet have results before
>bedtime (EDT).

Well that's good, nearly there.
>
>What site has an rsync feed for the Slack isos?

I'm in the land downunder, a good site for me may not be a good site
for you. Besides, I'm on a slow connection, takes me about 40 hours
to download a DVD iso image. I rarely do torrents.

Rsync is more suited to downloading a bunch of files, ftp with resume
is better for large, single files (I use wget for files from http or
ftp).

Bittorrent also good for large files as it chops them up for transfer
in pieces -- providing your ISP is torrent friendly, ISPs over here
seem to think all torrents infringe copyright.

Keeping a local mirror of the -current file trees means I have no
problem getting the 'new' .iso when a release is out -- I already
have it here :) Lately I'm spending more time with soldering iron
than computers, so I haven't installed slack-13 on other boxes here
yet.

Grant.
--
http://bugsplatter.id.au
From: Petri Kaukasoina on 24 Sep 2009 00:16
wexfordpress <john(a)wexfordpress.com> wrote:
>
>What site has an rsync feed for the Slack isos?

For example,
rsync://elektroni.phys.tut.fi/slackware/slackware64-13.0-iso/slackware64-13.0-install-dvd.iso
From: oz on 25 Sep 2009 12:22
On Sep 23, 4:07 pm, otzy_007 <otzy...(a)gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi. There are any repositories with Slackware 13 64bit version
> packages that work with slapt-get for example?

I am looking for 3rd party packages such as wine or virtualbox
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