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Re: [News] Free Software Breaks Another World Record

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____/ Gregory Shearman on Tuesday 19 May 2009 20:55 : \____

> On 2009-05-19, Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> ____/ Gregory Shearman on Tuesday 19 May 2009 08:04 : \____
>>>>
>>>> This reminds me of the Firefox 3 world record.  I downloaded it and got a
>>>> cute little certificate.  :)  Did anyone else get one?
>>> 
>>> Firefox is compiled from the xulrunner/firefox source code on my Gentoo
>>> machines. I upgraded to firefox 3.x when it turned up in Gentoo's Package
>>> Manager (Portage). I run Gentoo stable so ff3 didn't turn up for about 3
>>> months after it was released. I don't need to be on the bleeding edge
>>> and prefer to wait until applications such as firefox can be integrated
>>> into my system without affecting stability.
>>> 
>>> Did they win the guinness world record?
>>
>> It took even longer for Mandriva. Unless you choose to download and install
>> it from the Mozilla site rather than have it automatically updated by the
>> repos...
> 
> I'd assume that windows users would be the biggest contributors to the
> Firefox 3 world download attempt. Most Linux users would wait for their
> distro to supply it.

I got it from both. But Mandriva packages it better (there are sometimes
distro-specific builds with distro-specific elements and tweaks).

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