Speaking of sourceforge, Why doesn't speakup have a page over there? The give you 100mb, though they may give you more if you need it, CVS, a shell acount using ssh, and lots more stuff. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Igor Gueths" <igueths@xxxxxxxxx> To: <speakup at braille.uwo.ca> Sent: Wednesday, May 01, 2002 12:45 PM Subject: Re: newbie battle over debian, redhat or slackware > Hi all. Speaking of Sourceforge, they might be getting more bandwidth. > They are looking for people to host dl mirrors for them. The address for > that is bandwidth at sourceforge.net. And the part that I liked was that they > provide all the hardware. What that means, I'm not sure as of yet. I just > saw it at the bottom of some message posted to alsa-user. Just thought I'd > add that in regarding bandwidth. > > On Tue, 30 Apr 2002, Steve Holmes wrote: > > > Joe did an excellent tutorial on the setup of Slackware but beware > > that Speakup is now mainstreamed into new kernels directly from > > Slackware.com. just get the speakup.i or speakup.s disks, depending on > > whether you have a SCSI hard disk or IDE model. The other files you > > would need to download are the A series, AP series and so on. Yes, I > > know what you mean about sourceforge's download speeds - not verry > > pretty, are they. ftp.slackware.com uses sourceforge.net for their > > host but I had a hell of a time downloading the iso images from there > > last summer. I ended downloading them from Perdue or some place at > > over sixty K per second. > > > > On Tue, Apr 30, 2002 at 06:57:30PM -0700, Rob DeZonia wrote: > > > Hi everyone, > > > > > > Have a couple questions. First is about Debian. When I go to > > > the Debian section of the Speakup ftp site, is everything I need to > > > download for a Debian installation there or do I have to go to the > > > Debian ftp site to download any other files? > > > Now on to Slackware. First thanks to Joe Norton if he is within > > > the sound of my synthesizer for the excellent Installing Slackware > > > tutorial. When I went to the Slackware ftp site and went to 8.0 there > > > are about 25 subdirectories of files to download. Must I download > > > them all? That could be quite a job since the average speed has been > > > about 5K per second. lol > > > Which of the 3 flavors I've mentioned has the easiest package > > > installer? Thanks for letting me ramble. I want my first Linux > > > install to be as painless as possible so that's why all the questions. > > > > > > Rob > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > Speakup mailing list > > > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > > > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Speakup mailing list > > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup >
