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there's a lot of links to Slack-mirrors all over the world ( also Asia ), but it only shows 10.0 links.
but you could visit some servers, and look if 10.1 is already there.
aside from the whole router thing, I downloaded via the torrents and have received the first 2 cd's within 2 hours, the 3rd is 70% done, and the 4th has not really started. Time for a quick reinstall and then to start seeding.
As spoke of earlier in these posts, if you wish to seed the ISO's via the torrent but downloaded the ISO's from somewhere else, simply download the official torrent. Now normally you would have a place where the file is going to be downloaded to. Simply have the ISO for the said torrent already there as if you had downloaded it. The ISO will be checked and if it passes then you will be seeding it. If it doesn't pass then you may not have the official ISO (which isn't necessarily a bad thing). This was said earlier, I'm just confirming it so that people might do it.
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aside from the whole router thing, I downloaded via the torrents and have received the first 2 cd's within 2 hours, the 3rd is 70% done, and the 4th has not really started. Time for a quick reinstall and then to start seeding.
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would you mind posting your ( about ) location ?
when i start those torrents , i just don't see no seeds/peers at all.
could it be a distance issue ?
i've got them now, but nobody seems to want them...
Originally posted by cereal83 lol whats funny is you guys can use linux like nothing but you can't get bit torrent to work :P Well hopefully you figure it out since it's not too hard. If you have a firewall or router or router/firewall it's going to be slow. If you have a direct connection to the net and no firewall (software or hardware) then it's going to be really fast.
Thanks for the simple explanation to what I've experienced with bittorrent.
Hey, I didn't take any offense at your remarks, by the way. You made it clear that you were just teasing, and also you *did* offer some constructive advice.
I think some folks around here don't get enough sleep sometimes. In fact, I'm sure of it, since I'm one of them who often doesn't.
Slack people are usually, well, pretty slack, though maybe they do get a little touchy when they're trying to dl a long-awaited release and it's not going smoothly.
I had a question for you guys. I installed 10.0 yesterday. Yeah, I didn't know 10.1 was being released so soon. Can somebody provide or point me to someplace where I can find instrucitons to upgrade without going through the whole install process.
You still need to open at least one port. It's different than the default 6881, but it's still a port that has to accept incoming connections for it to work well.
Originally posted by zba78 Quick question. I already have KDE-3.3.2, GTK-2.6.1, Xorg 6.8.1, Gimp 2.2.3 and am using a custom 2.6.7 kernel. I also use XFce 4.2.0 as my desktop environment anyway. So would there be much benifit in me upgrading to slackware 10.1 or should I just wait for 11.0.?
I think the official announcement of 10.1 may help you decide. It has a good overview of what's new and what's changed. Then there's always the changelog for more details. It does sound like you've got a good chunk of 10.1 already, but maybe there's something else in there that will attract you.
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