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  1. jigdo and Debian distribution by bastianmz · · Score: 1 · on Faster P2P By Matching Similiar Files?

    The Jigsaw Downloader (jigdo) can be used for this, it was developed to help with distribution of Debian ISO images. It is being used to build Debian ISO images from the packages located on the Debian mirrors. You don't have to worry about distributing the ISO images to the mirror sites or need additional disk space to store them either. The best thing is that you can update your local ISO to include new packages, etc, as things change. Have a look at http://www.debian.org/CD/jigdo-cd/ and http://atterer.net/jigdo/

  2. Re:no shit... by EdMcMan · · Score: 1 · on Negroponte says Linux too 'Fat'

    That is odd that you are getting slow bt speeds. How many seeds are there? Make sure you are not firewalling your incoming bt port. That makes a huge different.

    For debian, try Jigdo

    And, just to stay on topic: Some distributions are very large.

  3. From little acorns... by MROD · · Score: 1 · on ARM: The Non-Evil Monopolist

    Well, who would have known that such a great oak would grow from such as small acorn

    Maybe it was due to all those electrons and atoms with a little help from archimedes.

  4. Bit if background by aitsu · · Score: 5, Informative · on ARM: The Non-Evil Monopolist
    I used to use an ARM computer when home computing was taking off in the UK. They weren't ARM then, they were called Acorn, building oddball "home" computers like the Acorn Atom. In the 1980s Acorn fought off rival bids from the likes of Sinclair to land a deal with the Department of Education and the BBC to develop the BBC Microcomputer and later the Acorn Electron. Its version of BASIC - BBC BASIC - became the programming language standard taught in all schools in the UK for a whole generation. In fact you could stick me infront of a Beeb now and I could probably knock off a simple text adventure without even thinking. ARM, incidentally, used to stand for Acorn RISC Machines. (Later, the 'A' came to stand for 'Advanced'.) Yes, they were in fact one of the earier companies to commercialise RISC computing with their R-series designs, which were also supplied to UK schools in the form of the Acorn Archimedes computer. The Archimedes was one awesome machine.

    This is all from memory, however. Here's a more accurate history.

  5. If not ISOs, .jigdo would be nice by WoodstockJeff · · Score: 1 · on Slackware 10-RC1 Released

    I've been trying to find someone who has the Slackware 9.1 ISO files for a friend with no luck. All the mirror sites in the U.S. seem to have removed them, and I don't REALLY want to abuse the bandwidth of sites outside North America if I don't have to. It would be nice if distributions that don't want to do ISOs for downloads would adopt Jigsaw Download (jigdo), like Debian uses...

  6. Re:13 CD's!? by gabebear · · Score: 2, Informative · on Make the Debian CDs Better by Installing popcon
    I think Debian is still the only OS you can download DVDs for.

    You have to use jigdo, and you can't use Windows to download the image, but it's there.