Mandrake9.2 is out!
Elliott Chapin
echapin-rieW9WUcm8FFJ04o6PK0Fg at public.gmane.org
Wed Oct 15 15:12:44 UTC 2003
At 06:42 PM 10/14/03, you wrote:
>On 10/15/2003 08:15:39 AM, Marc Lijour (Professeur d'Informatique)
>wrote:
>>The logic of bittorrent isn't it that the more we share the faster it
>>goes?
>
>Yes, but Mandrake desperately needs cash, so they are trying to add
>some value to being a club member. At first we (developers) were very
>upset about this but we later decided that:
>
>1. two weeks isn't that long to wait for non-club members
>2. it MAY actually encourage more people to join the club
>3. the rpms are all available by urpmi anyway... so you don't really
>need the iso
Please elaborate on this or point me to a reference. I ended up blowing
away my 9.0 because I didn't have enough disk space to do 9.1 as an update
using my CheapBytes CDs. So I am hoping urpmi can operate incrementally. I
suppose order of packages is important.
Thanks ...
>4. the torrent will probably leak from the club anyway
>
>Austin
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