Re: 3.5 release

[Marco Peereboom <slash@peereboom.us>]

There are some really fast mirrors out where the code updates are 
within a few hours hours of the main OpenBSD site.

On May 1, 2004, at 5:50 AM, Rod.. Whitworth wrote:

> Due in no small part to being on the antipodean end of a snail mail
> system waiting for my pre-ordered CDs of 3.5 and having a brand new
> 1.5Mb/s pipe I tested the popularity of OpenBSD when the only download
> point visible was Mother (ftp.openbsd.org).
>
> It took about 15 hours but I ended up with the odd bits like
> ports.tar.gz and the packages I wanted from a Californian mirror.
>
> I figure that the only way my download could have been so slow was that
> there were so many people gobbling on the big pipes at OBSD Central.
>
> I hope that many of those people are also waiting for their CDs or will
> find another  way to contribute some $$ to the effort.
>
> It's just one time I hate being 10 hours ahead of GMT and having heaps
> of unused download volume for the month of April unused and couldn't
> even get a set of files here in 9 hours from when I saw the message at
> 1500 AEST.
>
> But that's life.... and Murphy says that my CDs will be in the PO BOX
> on Monday.
>
> Thanks again all whose work went into release, ports and packages for
> 3.5.
>
> Well done!
>
>> From the land "down under": Australia.
> Do we look <umop apisdn> from up over?
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