YD 4

[Ryan Nix]

We have a Cogent 100 mbps line and everything downloads fast except 
this.  The ftp site keeps disconnecting too.

Since it is beta, I think that is all the more reason to give it away.  
If they want to charge for access to their servers, they should think 
about a unique customer key for yum or something like that.

Gavin Hemphill wrote:

> Ryan:
>     I'd check your provider first.  My downloads of YDL4rc2 took 7 hrs 
> for the 4 ISO's for the 040811 version on August 12th  and 3.5 hours 
> for the 040812 version on August 14th.
>
> You should also note that this is only YDL4rc2 - YDL4 has not been 
> released yet and its not ready as far as I can tell since it wont boot 
> my silver G4.  It works on my TI Powerbook though.
>     G++
>
> Ryan Nix wrote:
>
>> Not worth buying if Mandrake 10.1 is free.
>>
>> Honestly, I paid $90 for YDL 4 and its dog crap slow to download.  YD 
>> should switch providers.  I really have buyers remorse since Mandrake 
>> 10.1 is free AND they have a bit torrent going....
>>
>> Norberto Quintanar wrote:
>>
>>> Guys, as far as I can tell it's only being distributed to ydl.net
>>> enhanced accounts.  In other words people who have paid $59.95US 
>>> They usually don not set up mirrors until they release it to the
>>> general public.  Personally I'll wait.  I'm still dealing with YDL3.0
>>> "bugs."
>>>
>>> --- Rene Salmon <> wrote:
>>>
>>>  
>>>
>>>> Please someone setup a mirror!! It took me 3 days to download the 3 
>>>> iso images and this is at the
>>>> university
>>>> with a full 100 MB network.
>>>>
>>>> The YD ftp site is very slow.
>>>>
>>>> Rene
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On Tue, Aug 31, 2004 at 05:04:36PM -0500, Ryan Nix wrote:
>>>>  
>>>>
>>>>> Does anyone know of anywhere else, like a mirror, to get RC 2 of
>>>>>     
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> YDL 4?
>>>>  
>>>>
>>>>> I just bought it and its incredibly slow to download.
>>>>>     
>>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
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