Linux.org Website Question

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Phlyo

Hello,

Is there an alternate website to download the different versions of
Linux. I tried to download a Iso file for disk 1 of Red Hat Linux and
it was going to take close to 4 hours. I have a cable connection and
was wondering if there was another website with a faster download
speed?

Thank you!
 
Hi!

Phlyo said:
Is there an alternate website to download the different versions of
Linux. I tried to download a Iso file for disk 1 of Red Hat Linux and
it was going to take close to 4 hours. I have a cable connection and
was wondering if there was another website with a faster download
speed?
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Well, have a look there.

Mandrake:
www.mandrakelinux.com

Suse:
www.suse.de

Debian:
www.debian.org

Greetings,

Joachim
 
Phlyo <[email protected]> wrote:
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Is there an alternate website to download the different versions of
Linux. I tried to download a Iso file for disk 1 of Red Hat Linux and
it was going to take close to 4 hours. I have a cable connection and
was wondering if there was another website with a faster download
speed?
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www.redhat.com

http://www.redhat.com/apps/download/

I'm 56k, so I cannot speak for the download speed.

The Fedora project has a program called torrent that looks like it
opens a bunch of ports to speed up the downloading.

The Redhat 9.0 has many mirror sites you can select from
geographically.

I'd love to have a copy of either, if you'd consider it. Remove the 3
caps to email me and I'll send SASE and CD's.
 
Phlyo said:
Hello,

Is there an alternate website to download the different versions of
Linux. I tried to download a Iso file for disk 1 of Red Hat Linux and
it was going to take close to 4 hours. I have a cable connection and
was wondering if there was another website with a faster download
speed?
Click to expand...
If you have a BitTorrent client, Shareaza works for this, you might be able
to get them a lot sooner. It will open multiple trheads to different servers
and try to fill up your bandwidth. Good for the user and good for the
servers as they don't have to handle entire downloads, just fragments.
Always do an MD5 afterwards though, things can get corrupted sometimes. Of
course you should be doing this anyway.

HK
 
Hello,

Is there an alternate website to download the different versions of
Linux. I tried to download a Iso file for disk 1 of Red Hat Linux and
it was going to take close to 4 hours. I have a cable connection and
was wondering if there was another website with a faster download
speed?
Click to expand...

Try www.linuxiso.org
there are for all Linux-distributions are website with iso-images
Jörg

Thank you!
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JV
 
Hi!



Well, have a look there.

Mandrake:
www.mandrakelinux.com

Suse:
www.suse.de

Debian:
www.debian.org

Greetings,

Joachim
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Just tagging this distro specific link unto the above list:

Slackware ISO Mirror:
http://www.slackware.at/

Usually pretty good speed and reliable if you're interested in
snagging the newest (and several older) Slackware iso images. Be
sure to use ftp. Transfer of iso files via http is disabled.

For general purposes you could also try here, but I can't comment on
what you'll find.

http://www.linuxiso.org/

HTH,

Max
 
H-Man said:
If you have a BitTorrent client, Shareaza works for this, you might be able
to get them a lot sooner. It will open multiple trheads to different servers
and try to fill up your bandwidth. Good for the user and good for the
servers as they don't have to handle entire downloads, just fragments.
Always do an MD5 afterwards though, things can get corrupted sometimes. Of
course you should be doing this anyway.

HK
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There should (in theory) be no need for and MD5 check of a torrented file,
as the protocol has built-in hashing to ensure that the file you get isn't
corrupted...

Doesn't stop you checking it though - just in case... 8^D

Gio
 
Phlyo said:
Hello,

Is there an alternate website to download the different versions of
Linux. I tried to download a Iso file for disk 1 of Red Hat Linux and
it was going to take close to 4 hours. I have a cable connection and
was wondering if there was another website with a faster download
speed?
Click to expand...



Go ahead if you like, but I'd rather buy the disks for $2.49 each:

http://www.edmunds-enterprises.com/

Saves so much trouble. Nothing like burning a CD, dumping the image,
and then discoverint that there was some lint on the bottom of the CD,
and there is now a shadow in the middle of the blasted thing.
 
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