Will it be possible to get Fedora 3 on 12th July? [Archive]

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mercury

10th July 2004, 10:41 AM

Hi,
Well, we all know that Fedora 3 Test 1 is comming out on the 12th. But do you think that It will actually be possible, for a man like, from a little county of Slovenia, with 1 MBit ADSL connection, to download it on that day? I mean, when Slackware 10 came out, the servers were so overloaded, that at times I couldn't even connect to them, let alone to download with more than 50 kByte/sec. Is is possible, fedora comunity being as big as it is, that so many people will be downloading, that it will be impossible to get FC3 for at least a week?

George

ilja

10th July 2004, 11:01 AM

It won't be a real new version! It is only a test release. the first test release. So you should only test it as a paralel to a working system and only use it, to search for bugs and report them. A test release shouldn't be used to work with it. And so I don't think that a lot of people will try to download it, but only the developer and tester.

rogue

10th July 2004, 12:59 PM

As ilja pointed out, so long as you understand that it won't be a "production" release test away... that's what it's for. :)

Chances are you'll find a Bittorrent (http://bitconjurer.org/BitTorrent/) link either on the Fedora download page or on Slashdot (http://slashdot.org/). That would be your best bet, as the more people downloading (and sharing) the faster your download should be.

rogue

14th July 2004, 12:57 PM

...and here (http://torrent.linux.duke.edu/FC3-test1-binary-i386.torrent) we are. :)

ghaefb

14th July 2004, 08:08 PM

Yes it is possible :)
I'm from Sloveina with 1 MBit ADSL connection and I downloaded FC3t1 yesterday...

14th July 2004, 08:45 PM

I'm in the UK with a 56K connection...

...and i'm sure as hell not trying. ;)

Jman

15th July 2004, 02:05 PM

There are a whole bunch of mirrors (http://fedora.redhat.com/download/mirrors.html) which should carry the load. The few days or so of the final release they will probably be slow, however.

Moved to 3 Test forum.

mark

15th July 2004, 02:23 PM

I'm in the UK with a 56K connection...

...and i'm sure as hell not trying. ;) Gareth, I thought you posted earlier that your little bit of Heaven had finally passed an ordinance (or edict or rescript) that allowed for modern telecomm technology - are "they" (the infamous) still foot-dragging?

Mark