I aggree. The only reason I deal with it are because a lot of the open source stuff i download is there. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Brian Borowski" <brianb@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> To: <speakup at braille.uwo.ca> Sent: Thursday, May 02, 2002 8:49 AM Subject: Re: newbie battle over debian, redhat or slackware > I agree with Janina. Why on earth would Kirk want to deal with the > sourceforge stuff, then we'd have to fight through their horrible website > to find the damn thing; well, at least if we actually wanted the sources. > It's not too bad once you get used to it, but what he's got right now, is > infinitely better. > > Brian Borowski > > > On Wed, 1 May 2002, Janina Sajka wrote: > > > Heavens! Kirk runs his own wonderful server. What need has Speakup for SourceForge and their horendous nav bar?? > > > > On Wed, 1 May 2002, Alex Snow wrote: > > > > > 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 at attbi.com> > > > 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 > > > > > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > Speakup mailing list > > > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > > > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > > > > > > > -- > > > > Janina Sajka, Director > > Technology Research and Development > > Governmental Relations Group > > American Foundation for the Blind (AFB) > > > > Email: janina at afb.net Phone: (202) 408-8175 > > > > Chair, Accessibility SIG > > Open Electronic Book Forum (OEBF) > > http://www.openebook.org > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > 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 >
