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Re:World record?
18.5 seconds? A record for calculating pi? My computer can calculate pi in less than a second, simply by typing http://www.solidz.com/pi/pi-1million.php into my web browser and pressing Enter.
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Re:How are they going to control commerce?Well, not being able to find a link doesn't make the technology more difficult. It just shows that not everyone is using torrents for downloading applications.
Couple that with the fact that Inkscape is 23 and available on Sourceforge (lots of bandwidth, not a very big file), Scribus is 7 mb (not a big file so torrents don't make much sense), and Audacity is even smaller, and I'm not entirely surprised that you didn't find torrents for those apps. They're far more useful, by design, for large filetypes.
That doesn't preclude the use for smaller files, mind, but there is a reason why it's quite common to now find Linux ISOs. A more stable download, too, thanks to how it's set up.
But if you look at SolidZ, you'll see that some major apps and pretty much every distro has a torrent. If you look at etree, you'll find lots of live recordings of concerts in high quality formats -- files that would be restrictive for direct downloads.
Either way, the point still stands that had you found a link for those apps, it would've been as easy as simply clicking the torrent and having it open in Azureus. The fact that there's less support for files that are easily downloadable through direct HTTP or FTP connections doesn't mean that Bittorrent is useless or nonexistent for those apps. It just means that apps that are not available through direct HTTP or FTP connections are more likely to exist on nebulous p2p applications. Nothing new there.
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Lang + torrent
default language is german (hence the DE) you can set language to english by using the following cheat code at boot: lang=en
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not the only show in town...
our site also lists linux torrents (as well as others) and their stats... there are also a number of other sites dealing in f/oss that do torrent listings...
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whitebox torrent...
mirror here: whitebox torrent
in case it goes down (little slow) hopefully tracker doesn't go with it... -
Re:So now that the damage has been done....
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Mandrake Nostalgia
Been about a year since I last tried mandrake. I'm quite interested to see how far they've come however I've been disappointed by it many times in the past...
Beautiful interface but very poor support for my hardware. On the other hand all of the old school distros (Slackware, RedHat/Fedora) have paled in comparison to Knoppix