[NTLUG:Discuss] Need Distro Recommendation, Please

[Terry]

On 5/5/05, Terry <trryhend at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 5/5/05, Rick Matthews <k5wls at verizon.net> wrote:
> > Stephen Davidson wrote:
> > >
> > > Faster route for download (If you are in NorthDallas) -- take laptop to
> > > Connection Court at Shops at Willowbend, use T1.  Takes about an
> > > hour/CD.  Its free.  They just ask that you set up a username/password,
> > > so they can track frequency/type of usage (The sponsors are researching
> > > whether or not there is a demand for this type of service, and how much
> > > of a demand there is). Spousal Unit can shop while you are downloading.
> > > Starbucks in vicinity if caffeine fix needed.
> > >
> > > Atlanta Bread company, Dunn's coffee shop, other locations also provide
> > > High speed wireless for free (well, they would prefer you at least buy a
> > > coffee from them), with high speed download.
> > >
> >
> > Steve,
> >
> > That's good information for everyone to have, thanks.
> >
> > Several years ago I bought a download manager (Net Vampire) for windoze
> > and it continues to serve me well. It makes an iso download as easy as
> > a 100k download. (Note: I didn't say as FAST as...)  It took care of
> > everything overnight.
> >
> > Rick
> >
> >
> 
> wget or kget are very nice alternatives.
> Kget comes integrated with konqueror.
> I always switch to konqueror when I anticipate downloading any sizable
> file, unless I do it from CL, and in which case, I use wget,  so that
> I can pick up where I left off  if for any reason it's interrupted.
> Kget is really nice GUI download manager. There's pretty good review
> of it in last month's issue of TUX Magazine, ( tuxmagagine.org ).
> See: http://www.tuxmagazine.com/node/1000123
> 

Also see the "Tip of the Day" for  04/28/2005
http://deadeyedata.com/tip.htm
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It aired on Grandbury's radio station as a 1 minute sound byte on that
day, ("Tip of the Day from Deadeyedata.com").  If anyone lives in the
Grandbury area, the call sign is KPIR  and the frequency is 1420 AM.
It's too far from me to pick up the station, but, I've met with
Jennifer Swarts and she has requested that anyone from the Linux
community that feels so inclined, should submit ideas for her "Tip of
the Day" in the form of Linux Tips to: "Jennifer Swarts"
<jennifer at deadeyedata.com>

She does a really good job with it too.  I can send that tip for Kget
as an mp3 file if anyone wants to listen to it, (it's only 949K).  She
emailed it to me on the day it aired.  I'm not positive about this but
I think she does them for the whole week, all at once on the weekend,
and just sends a batch of mp3 files to the radio station via email.

She claims that there's a significant number of Linux users in the
Grandbury area.