Click to See Complete Forum and Search --> : Hey, the Slackware 9.1 ISOs are available on Bittorrent, start downloading.
Honestly, it's taking like 8 hours to dl just one ISO of the 4, get it on Bittorrent and give us some bandwith!
Edit: If I'm upgrading from 9.0 to 9.1, I just need to get ISOs 4 and 4, right? They are labeled Sources parts 1 and 2, so I think that should be enough to just upgrade with the package manager.
probably helps if I give a link, eh?
http://www.slackware.com/torrents/index.html
I've ben using slack-9.0 and have always stayed 'current'. My /etc/slackware-version, says "9.1" ! It's a great system--fast and crisp.
Frank :)
Darkbolt
09-27-2003, 05:55 PM
Theres nothing in it that really interests me...Gnome 2.4 should be gotten through dropline, other than that it doesnt have much over 9.0
JohnT
09-27-2003, 06:42 PM
Originally posted by Darkbolt
Theres nothing in it that really interests me...Gnome 2.4 should be gotten through dropline, other than that it doesnt have much over 9.0
I would have to agree with you from my usage point. Dropline had kept me about as current as my needs dictate.
Yeah, the changelogs reveal that there really isn't much new. The big selling point is GNOME 2.4, but I use dropline, so I'm set there. I just don't have much better to do, so I'm installing it.
DSwain
09-27-2003, 10:12 PM
well yeah the updates are small, but they do have generally the most up to date software on there which is nice, plus they have some new package manager or something. Oh well, in general it's whatever you like, whether it be what you're used to or the most up-to-date stuff you can grab easily, just base your decision on that.
JohnT
09-27-2003, 10:31 PM
MS broke me of the "Automatic-update" syndrome. (unless its a major security one and I'm running it)
sclebo05
09-27-2003, 10:56 PM
i recommend at least trying out the swaret. also curious to see about this kernel 2.6 support. and the alsa sound architecture, and the updated packages, and the new libraries.........
proc.prophet
09-28-2003, 02:10 PM
I just got them at over 200 kb/sec each :D
bittorrent doesn't work well for me so I went hunting for an http or ftp that had them
http://www.abnormalpenguin.com/slackware-mirrors.php
sclebo05
09-28-2003, 04:10 PM
where the heck did you get that iso so fast? the only server i could find from slackware's wonderfully outdated /getslack page is planetmirror.com. nobody else has it that i can see. i got the first ISO last night at 70k, and i can't even touch the second ISO.
and about this bittorrent everyone raves about - IT SUCKS. the fastest i have ever downloaded anything with that is 10k. great idea, instead of bogging down 1 server with a T1 connection, lets bog down everyone's cable connections' upload speed and tie up the internet more in general.
DSwain
09-28-2003, 04:59 PM
hahaha, that's very true. I'll admit, it generally doesn't operate that well, but i've seen it over 100kb once, so it can be good, but yeah it really isn't that great.
Oh yeah, check out what proc.prophet posted>
http://www.abnormalpenguin.com/slackware-mirrors.php
on there there is 1 site with it, i'm download ISO 1 now at slightly over 200, but how many disks are there?
sclebo05
09-28-2003, 05:15 PM
100k? that's it? why go to that when i get 250k on a regular download? thanks for the link man, i am also getting it at a reasonable speed now. thanks.
DSwain
09-28-2003, 06:04 PM
yeah, i know what you mean. I was just saying you can get OK speeds, but it is pretty worthless. Now if you could grab 300k or something, now that'd be something!
Hmm.... I don't know about you, but Bittorrent usually retreives mine at about the same speed as a normal server would as long as there are a sufficient amount of people getting the file with Bittorrent. You may want to read the FAQ about speeding up Bittorrent. http://bitconjurer.org/BitTorrent/FAQ.html You get more speed if people can connect to you, and you may want to change your max upload speed if you download more than one file at a time, otherwise it lags.
Sometimes it takes a while to warm up for me, too. Like, when I downloaded the ISOs, it started off at like 10 kbps, but a few minutes later it was up in the 130-140 kbps range, which is about what I normally get on other servers with my ADSL, maybe a bit slower. Good servers sometimes get me at like 155-169 kbps, although I once achieved 175 in a BitTorrent retrieval.
jvolm
09-29-2003, 01:35 PM
Thanks for the links.....
Man, I love Bittorrent. I just put them in, and within a minute (really just one minute) I have maxed out my download speed. ISO-1 alone is coming through at 200 KB/s. Sweeetttt....
DSwain
09-29-2003, 04:31 PM
it seems then i was doing something wrong then...is there a port you can unblock for it?
I'm behind a firewall/NAT, can I use BitTorrent?
Yes, but you will get better performance if other peers can connect to you. By default, BitTorrent listens on port 6881, trying incrementially higher ports if it's unable to bind, and gives up after 6889 (the port range is configurable). It's up to you to figure out how to poke a hole in your firewall/NAT.
jvolm
09-29-2003, 04:53 PM
Like SDS said, you have to poke a hole in your router/NAT/firewall to get it to work right. BT throttles your download based on what you allow for upload. If your ports are blocked, it allows you a download rate of diddly per squat because you allow no upload. Open the ports and watch it pour in.
DSwain
09-29-2003, 05:08 PM
yeah, this is why i asked, well maybe i'll do that if i ever need something with bit torrent. thanks
sasKuatch
09-30-2003, 09:28 PM
Originally posted by JohnT
MS broke me of the "Automatic-update" syndrome. (unless its a major security one and I'm running it)
Cheers to that one. Part of the reasons I left windows is because I could never get a hang of the syndrome as you call it:D
JohnT
09-30-2003, 09:35 PM
Originally posted by JohnT
I would have to agree with you from my usage point. Dropline had kept me about as current as my needs dictate.
OK...I'm eating my words about upgrading.....not an iso but with swaret to 9.1....I'll admit it almost twice as fast a desktop as the previous 9.0.:p Dropline takes --force to get it installed, but other than that...no problems.
Seph64
10-01-2003, 12:33 AM
Anyone else having trouble with the torrent setup? I openned ports 6881 to 6889 in my router, and I am still get crappy speeds (around 1 kilobyte a second on a 640Kilobit down/256Kilobit up ADSL connection). Or if someone knows of a reliable FTP mirror where I can download that last 2 ISO files i need (disc 2 and 4), please tell me.
sclebo05
10-01-2003, 09:11 AM
JohnT,
isn't it strange how FAST 9.1 is? if you consider that it should basically be 9.0 with updated packages, you shouldn't see such speed boosts. but i have been using it every day since it came out and i HAVE been pleasantly surprised. maybe it is due to the fact that every package is optimized for i486 instead of the old i386?
jvolm
10-01-2003, 09:33 AM
JohnT-
Are you serious? Twice as fast as 9.0? I haven't installed it yet. The ISO's are sitting on my hard drive, I just haven't taken the time. But DAMN.....Maybe I should make the time...
Ah, hell....swaret here I come.
sasKuatch
10-01-2003, 10:19 AM
Originally posted by sclebo05
JohnT,
isn't it strange how FAST 9.1 is? if you consider that it should basically be 9.0 with updated packages, you shouldn't see such speed boosts. but i have been using it every day since it came out and i HAVE been pleasantly surprised. maybe it is due to the fact that every package is optimized for i486 instead of the old i386?
If that'd be the case, Mandrake would spank it thoroughly because it's optimized not for 386, not 486, but 586 instead.
sclebo05
10-01-2003, 10:38 AM
i see your point, BUT slackware is noted to be a fast and lean distro, and nobody has ever said that about mandrake (which is a good distro, just not for me). when i tried JAMD 0.0.6, it was much faster than RH9, and that was probably due in part to the i686 optimization. i couldn't tell you why 9.1 feels 'faster' than 9.0, i was just making a guess. if anyone knows, i would love to know why :)
JohnT
10-01-2003, 04:57 PM
I haven't even optimized my kernel yet (dont know if I'm going to) this incarnation runs as fast as anything I've compiled before, for this box. As to the above references to my name...I did not say anywhere that it ran twice as fast<--------disclaimer.:p
Rommani
10-01-2003, 05:10 PM
I don't know much about optimization, but I've heard slackware is optimized for i686 but still compatible with i486. I think it makes sense.