Wowza!

[Bateluer]

through BT. I think thats a new record for my BitTorrent DLs.

Hopefully, I will have better luck with FC6 than I did with Ubuntu 6.06 and 6.10RC1.

 

[Netopia]

I was only hitting between about 45-200 the first day it was out... and mainly at the lower of that range. I had to let it run overnight to complete.

Guess you get a nice boost by waiting a couple days for more people to have it being shared... nice!

Joe

 

[Bateluer]

There were amost 3000 seeds when I was pulling it, it got up to just over 700KB/s before it finished.

 

[Netopia]

I had a handful of seeds at a time... not even enough for a decent garden! 😉

Joe

 

[Bateluer]

People DLing FC6 seem to have knocked down the Fedora website. 😛

 

[DasFox]

I hope you don't have a Nvidia card, and plan on using the Nvidia drivers, it's all in a state of a mess at the moment, so because of this I dumped FC6.

ALOHA

 

[Netopia]

I don't usually load the nVidia drivers because it's such a hassle to have to reload every time I update the kernel.

I usually use boxes as either servers or seconary boxes for surfing and email and such anyway, so I don't really care about the 3D performance.

Joe

 

[Bateluer]

The two test boxes I have for playing with linux are an i865 based Celeron 2.4Ghz with 2x256MB DDR333(?) ram and and Intel Extreme Graphics 2 IGP. The second is a i845 based 2.53Ghz P4 with a single 512MB stick of PC2100 RAM, it also used the Intel Extreme Graphics 1 IGP. However, since that system only has single channel RAM, and Compaq saw fit to equip it with a single stick of PC2100, performance was dismal using the IGP. Even poking around the stripped down XP GUI was sluggish. I installed my backup vidcard, a PCI FX5500, in the system. It helped improve the system's performance by allowing the P4 to grab all the memory bandwidth for itself.

Not like anybody cares about my antique testbeds though, they serve mainly for S@H. 🙂

 

[Nothinman]

I don't usually load the nVidia drivers because it's such a hassle to have to reload every time I update the kernel.

I don't know how FC handles it but in Debian there's nvidia-kernel-blah packages for each kernel and Ubuntu has their restricted-modules packages, if you make sure there's an update for them at the same time you update your kernel you won't have any issues.

I usually use boxes as either servers or seconary boxes for surfing and email and such anyway, so I don't really care about the 3D performance.

3D is only part of it, the nvidia driver is so much faster than 'nv' at 2D it's not even funny.