(Ted Harding) wrote:
Certainly not. The best I have is a 4KB/sec (approx) dialup connection with no prospect of better in the foreseeable future and at that rate downloading even 1 CD of bytes would take over 2 days, continuously connected, with the complication that the connection fails randomly (on average about once/hour). Nor are there any DVD readers here!
As others have said, a great thing about SuSE has been the splendid collection of software you got on the CDs. Once you had that box you could forget any difficulties of connecting to the outside and simply read off the CDs in a very satisfying way. I concur that it is a pity that this situation is changing and some of us in the margins will feel even more marginalised.
Best wishes to all, Ted.
I'm quite jealous. My dialup has been hovering around 800B/s (or less) and my ISP ignores my requests to fix the problem. On top of that, my 9.0 Pro #2 CD is foobar and I'm trying to download rpms that it fails on just so I can install things without waiting over half an hour for stuff to time out. Could anyone make a #2 disk and send it to me? I'm seeing DSL in my near future. Jim