[ale] back to Slack

[Ben Coleman]

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Jim Philips wrote:
| About BitTorrent: Can anybody here get to the Slackware torrent?

I started it, and while it didn't time out, the transfer was pretty
slow.  You'll probably get better transfer times by ftp or http on one
of the slackware mirror sites.  I suspect that for the Slackware ISOs,
Bittorrent primarily sees use in the few weeks after a new release, as
an alternative to the (typically overloaded in the weeks after a
release) ftp/http mirrors.  Once the post-release rush is over, I doubt
there are enough people leaving it running to give decent transfer speeds.

Ben
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