Getting Fedora 7

[Tony Nelson]

At 4:01 PM -0400 5/19/07, Eric wrote:
>At 02:26 PM 5/19/2007, Remi Collet wrote:
>
> >> Yes : Fedora 7 test 4 : http://torrent.fedoraproject.org/
>
>Good afternoon, Remi.
>
>Thanks for the pointer.  I am trying to download it now, but as in the
>past, I can't seem to get bittorrent to work at anything like a reasonable
>speed.  For example, the best I can get out of bittorrent right now is
>about 32 KB/s (on a 3-Mbps DSL link), and usually it's considerably
>slower.  At that rate the ISO file will finish downloading sometime around
>midday on Monday, if I'm lucky.
>
>I was hoping there'd be an ISO file available for plain old FTP download,
>but the only ones I can find anywhere are all for Fedora 6.

Well, there's always checking out the -devel branch ("rawhide").

Sometimes it helps to stop and restart a bittorrent download.  And, of
course, make sure that you are uploading as well ("sharing"), but not so
much as to starve the download for ACKs.  Or the torrent may be slow
because there are few participants, and none of them are sharing much.
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