Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (2974 mails)

[Jerry Kreps <jerrykreps@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

mmmm..... My tier One ADSL only gives me about 120MB per hour.  8-(
jlk


On Thursday 08 February 2001 13:13, Michael wrote:
> You can download ~ 650Mb CD in an hour. Six CD's is about a 6 hour
> download if you take everything instead of just what you need. It
> takes far longer than that to have it mailed to you and almost as
> long to find time to go to the store and locate what I want (
> Though it's getting easier to find Linux! ). Of course the
> University here keeps copies of all the popular current distros so
> it's a pretty fast connection if you're anywhere near (on campus is
> very fast..). Check w/ your local LUG to see if they keep copies
> too. :)
>
> *^*^*^*
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> shape you. -- Albert Einstein
>
> On Thu, 8 Feb 2001, Matthew wrote:
> > 7.1 will have all the crypto stuff on the CD's even for the US.
> >
> > I have a DSL line, but still will get the CD's, as its a whole
> > lot faster for me to upgrade via and install off of them than
> > hunting down packages. But I can see why people will use the
> > download and retrieve method.
> >
> > Matt
> >
> > On Thu, 8 Feb 2001, Samy Elashmawy wrote:
> > > At 02:35 PM 2/7/2001 -0800, Christopher D. Reimer wrote:
> > > >Apparently, this is still up in the air.  Did SuSE really lay
> > > > people off in the U.S. office? (Would not surprised me that
> > > > much since the current market probably sink their opportunity
> > > > to do a IPO now or on more favorable terms.)  Or, did a
> > > > single fired employee start rumors to get back at SuSE?
> > > >
> > > >Either way, business is business, and I hope we don't see a
> > > > removal of the SuSE distribution from the U.S. market
> > >
> > > You can allways order the international version , has all the
> > > krypto stuff as well.
> > >
> > > >Christopher
> > > >
> > > >On Wed, 7 Feb 2001, Matthew wrote:
> > > >> It is very disturbing :-(. Hopefully they will release a
> > > >> reason "why" thye are laying off most of the staff.
> > > >>
> > > >> Good luck to all the staff!
> > > >>
> > > >> Hopefully you will all stay in the Linux field and hopefully
> > > >> things will get to turn round sometime in the future.
> > > >>
> > > >> I really hoped nothing like this would happen to an non-IPO
> > > >> company, or the slumps owuld not affect them as much as IPO
> > > >> ones...
> > > >>
> > > >> Matt
> > > >>
> > > >> On Wed, 7 Feb 2001, Corvin Russell wrote:
> > > >> > It's a little disturbing that the SuSE PR person could
> > > >> > come out and just tell a blatant untruth.  Well, I believe
> > > >> > the part about expanding marketing and sales, it fits with
> > > >> > the blatant untruth part.  Sign of things to come?
> > > >> >
> > > >> > Corvin
> > > >> >
> > > >> >
> > > >> >
> > > >> >
> > > >> >
> > > >> >
> > > >> > --
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> > > >> >
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