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Having waited impatiently for fedora three to come out, can you give me any idea as to when the final will hit the scene?

On Thu, 2004-10-28 at 01:15, Paul wrote: > Hi. > > > Having waited impatiently for fedora three to come out, can > > you give me any idea as to when the final will hit the scene? > > The Fedora website has that information. IIRC, 08/11/04 > > TTFN > > Paul I came into FC2 about 1/2 way through, so had no problem getting the ISO's or updates. For you that have gone through FC1 then FC2, how long before the dust settles as I assume the servers will get slammed when it's released for at least the first week. Then there will be a Ooops we forgot to do X from Red Hat. So wait 2 maybe 4 weeks?

I came into FC2 about 1/2 way through, so had no problem getting the ISO's or updates. For you that have gone through FC1 then FC2, how long before the dust settles as I assume the servers will get slammed when it's released for at least the first week. Then there will be a Ooops we forgot to do X from Red Hat. So wait 2 maybe 4 weeks?

I think that the Torrent is great for large software releases, such as Fedora Core or OpenOffice, as it spreads the stress across the network and I think that Fedora Core 2 was on the torrent about a week after release.

I usually get the original release after a few folks have retrieved it and installed

Is the Torrent incorporated with FC, or is it something that I have to get at another location? If the latter applies, how about a source?

On Sat, 2004-10-30 at 06:30, D. D. Brierton wrote: >On Sat, 2004-10-30 at 05:10, James McKenzie wrote: > > > >>Is the Torrent incorporated with FC, or is it something that I have to >>get at another location? If the latter applies, how about a source? >> >> >BitTorrent client software for Windows and Mac is available here: > >http://bittorrent.com/download.html > >Client software for FC2 is available from here: > >http://newrpms.sunsite.dk/apt/redhat/en/i386/fc2/RPMS.newrpms/bittorrent-3.4.2-1.rhfc2.nr.noarch.rpm > > I've got RPMs for RH9, FC1 and FC2 at http://www.city-fan.org/ftp/contrib/bittorrent/ Also available there (for FC2 only) is a useful little program called GTorrentViewer that will show you information about a torrent, such as how many people are seeding it (have full copies); torrents without seeds are best avoided as you can spend a long time downloading 90% of a distro and then find that nobody has a copy of the remaining 10%. >On Windows and Mac you'll have to ask elsewhere, as I don't use those >platforms. On FC download a suitable BitTorrent RPM such as the one >above and install it. If you're not using FC2 then use google to find a >BitTorrent RPM for whatever distro you are using. Then when FC3 comes >out find the link on the download page to the torrent file, which will >be a file ending with the suffix *.torrent. Download the *.torrent file >(it's only small) with your browser. In a terminal, cd to the directory >you downloaded the *.torrent file to and then issue the following >command: > >btdownloadcurses.py <torrentname>.torrent > >replacing <torrentname> with the actual name of the torrent file. > > Alternatively you can have the BitTorrent client get the torrent file for you: btdownloadcurses.py --url http://www.example.com/xyz.torrent I find it useful to limit the upload rate so that there is still some bandwidth left for mail, web access etc. (I only have a 512/256 kbit DSL line): btdownloadcurses.py --responsefile xya.torrent --max_upload_rate 20 The upload rate is specified in kilobytes per second. Paul.

Hello all, Having waited impatiently for fedora three to come out, can you give me any idea as to when the final will hit the scene? Ok you will say when everything is top notch (as usual).