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Reading this thread inspired me to run a speed test on my connection, and I find that whilst I've been on holiday my Pipex connection has been upgraded from 512Kbps to to 2Mbps (as they had promised earlier in the summer).

I had noticed a slight improvement in performance - high-bandwidth streaming video stalling less often, etc. - but hadn't got round to checking whether the upgrade had actually happened.

DJGM wrote:

cwathen wrote: Try downloading a few ISO images Nick, and I'm sure you'll feel the benefit of your faster connection.

Indeed . . . have a go downloading ISO's of a Linux distro. You don't have to use it though. But seeing large files that
are about 600-700MB each come racing down the line is kinda fun, particularly if you haven't had broadband for long.

Try any of these . . . SuSE Linux - Kubuntu - Mepis - Knoppix . . .

One things for certain, with broadband, you certainly find yourself filling up your HDD a lot quicker!

Is SUSE any good, DJGM? I Ask as my friend is wanting to ditch Windows and wants to try linux. we tryed installing debian on his laptop after "accidentaly" deleating Windows. it installed perfect but the X Window System refuses to load. :roll: . last time i try to help a friend.

SuSE is pretty good apart from one thing. The default version of Xine won't let you play DVD's for legal reasons, so you
have to jump through hoops (not literally) to stop it from displaying a legal notice and refusing to play any DVD movies.

So apart from that, and the fact the latest release version spans 5 CD's or one DVD, it's a pretty darn good Linux distro.

And now (as of a couple of weeks ago) it's completely free, since it's gone down a similar path that RedHat went
down some time ago, when they liberated and rebranded their consumer oriented distro as Fedora Core Linux.

See OpenSuSE.org for more details about the - now effectively no longer commercial - SuSE Linux.

If you only want to download a distro that takes just one CD sized ISO image, try Kubuntu or Mepis.

DJGM wrote:SuSE is pretty good apart from one thing. The default version of Xine won't let you play DVD's for legal reasons, so you
have to jump through hoops (not literally) to stop it from displaying a legal notice and refusing to play any DVD movies.

So apart from that, and the fact the latest release version spans 5 CD's or one DVD, it's a pretty darn good Linux distro.

And now (as of a couple of weeks ago) it's completely free, since it's gone down a similar path that RedHat went
down some time ago, when they liberated and rebranded their consumer oriented distro as Fedora Core Linux.

See OpenSuSE.org for more details about the - now effectively no longer commercial - SuSE Linux.

If you only want to download a distro that takes just one CD sized ISO image, try Kubuntu or Mepis.

thanks for the reply. might as well try SUSE then, i've got a pile of blank cd's siting next to me that are going to waste anyway (Tooskint to buy a DVD Burner, saving up to buy a PowerMac Pentium4 when they hit the streets next year).