Hello All,

So I wanted to try out the new Slackware Linux 15 today as a VM. Tried to get it from here but I was told it was a 16 hour download (!). So I connected to my server at home and downloaded the ISO there. Took all of 85 seconds. I am using gFTP via SFTP to get the ISO here. 3.5GB and so far I am getting 555kb/s out of the hospital's WiFi. I am glad it is Sunday and no IT staff are here or else I'd be throttled for sure. Still a 90 minute download but better than 16 hours.

-- Sean

... That does not compute.
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Hello Sean Dennis!

** On Sunday 08.05.22 - 13:19, Sean Dennis wrote to All:

So I wanted to try out the new Slackware Linux 15 today as
a VM. Tried to get it from here but I was told it was a
16 hour download (!). So I connected to my server at home
and downloaded the ISO there. Took all of 85 seconds. I
am using gFTP via SFTP to get the ISO here. 3.5GB and so
far I am getting 555kb/s out of the hospital's WiFi. I am
glad it is Sunday and no IT staff are here or else I'd be
throttled for sure. Still a 90 minute download but better
than 16 hours.

What kind of pc are you using at the hospital?

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SEAN DENNIS wrote to ALL <=-

So I wanted to try out the new Slackware Linux 15 today as a VM. Tried
to get it from here but I was told it was a 16 hour download (!). So I connected to my server at home and downloaded the ISO there. Took all
of 85 seconds. I am using gFTP via SFTP to get the ISO here. 3.5GB
and so far I am getting 555kb/s out of the hospital's WiFi. I am glad
it is Sunday and no IT staff are here or else I'd be throttled for
sure. Still a 90 minute download but better than 16 hours.

Meanwhile, somewhere in the adminstrative section of the hospital...

Network Peon: "Sir, we have a increase in traffic in the heart ICU
VLAN"...

IT Manager: Well, we know it's not porn... leave it be"...

Kev

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Hello Sean!

Hope you are doing well!

On 08 May 2022, Sean Dennis said the following...

So I wanted to try out the new Slackware Linux 15 today as a VM. Tried
to get it from here but I was told it was a 16 hour download (!).

Just like in the good old days. Or, wait... 16 hours would have been like... 173 MB on a 33600 modem. :-D

So I
connected to my server at home and downloaded the ISO there. Took all
of 85 seconds. I am using gFTP via SFTP to get the ISO here. 3.5GB
and so far I am getting 555kb/s out of the hospital's WiFi.

Quite a difference! :-O

Best regards
Zip

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Hello August,

08 May 22 14:32, you wrote to me:

What kind of pc are you using at the hospital?

My old HP Elitebook 840 G1 (Intel i5-4300U CPU @ 1.90GHz, 8GB RAM, 250GB SSD) running Devuan Linux.

-- Sean

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Hello Kevin,

08 May 22 17:15, you wrote to me:

IT Manager: Well, we know it's not porn... leave it be"...

It was encrypted so they'd know it wasn't normal traffic. LOL

-- Sean

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Re: LOL
By: Sean Dennis to All on Sun May 08 2022 01:19 pm

Hello All,

So I wanted to try out the new Slackware Linux 15 today as a VM. Tried to get it
from here but I was told it was a 16 hour download (!). So I connected to my serv
at home and downloaded the ISO there. Took all of 85 seconds. I am using gFTP vi
SFTP to get the ISO here. 3.5GB and so far I am getting 555kb/s out of the hospital's WiFi. I am glad it is Sunday and no IT staff are here or else I'd be
throttled for sure. Still a 90 minute download but better than 16 hours.

-- Sean

... That does not compute.

Enjoy your Slackware.

Slackware is the last general purpose Linux distribution I find bearable for personal
use :-) Too bad their release engineering is a bit sub-par. I love that you can use it
as a great development platform since you can paste a ports-like system on it easily.

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Hello Sean!

** On Monday 09.05.22 - 23:06, you wrote:

My old HP Elitebook 840 G1 (Intel i5-4300U CPU @ 1.90GHz,
8GB RAM, 250GB SSD) running Devuan Linux.

Nice. That one is no slouch.

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August Abolins wrote to Sean Dennis <=-

Nice. That one is no slouch.

I had a G4 but had to sell it for much-needed funds.

-- Sean

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Arelor wrote to Sean Dennis <=-

Slackware is the last general purpose Linux distribution I find
bearable for personal
use :-) Too bad their release engineering is a bit sub-par. I love that you can use it
as a great development platform since you can paste a ports-like system
on it easily.

I ran Slack for nearly 20 years. I switched to Devuan a while back but I do like how it doesn't fall into dependency hell like Devuan and others do.
The new Slack 15 is pretty nice.

SlackBuilds is very handy, yes.

To be honest, I prefer FreeBSD over GNU/Linux but FreeBSD isn't quite ready
to be useful for my personal system.

-- Sean

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Re: Re: LOL
By: digimaus to Arelor on Tue May 10 2022 11:13 pm

I ran Slack for nearly 20 years. I switched to Devuan a while back but I do like how it doesn't fall into dependency hell like Devuan and others do.
The new Slack 15 is pretty nice.

SlackBuilds is very handy, yes.

To be honest, I prefer FreeBSD over GNU/Linux but FreeBSD isn't quite ready to be useful for my personal system.

-- Sean

I am switching most of my systems to OpenBSD as of late. I only have a personal laptop running Linux left.

I am kind of pissed at Slackware 15 because it eats more battery power away than its predecesor. Slackware 14.2 came with pm-utils, which you could use for running power management scripts. Slackware 15 ditched it for elogind which simply has no real power management. I am a bit sore from that.

I know it is a bit of a pety thing to be pissed off about, but my experience with Linux is that it usually works better after each upgrade so when the trend throws an exception it bothers me :-)

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