On Sat, Dec 11, 2010 at 08:16:33AM -0500, andre999 wrote: > >Not to mention that a ratio of 2 mirrors in the USA out of a total > >of 25 seems rather odd, for something that admins do not care. > > 2 of 25 PLF mirrors in the U.S.
Technically, 1, since the other is down ( and should be removed from the list ). So a ratio of 4%. > 16 of 133 Mandriva mirrors in the U.S. A ratio of 12%. Same as debian, based 49 mirrors in the US out of 358. ( ie 13% ), based on http://www.debian.org/mirror/list Ubuntu has 12 out of 62 for isos, ie 16%. http://www.ubuntu.com/getubuntu/downloadmirrors And for packages, that 51 out of 367, ie 13% https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+archivemirrors Opensuse has 22 out of 155, aka 14%. ( http://mirrors.opensuse.org/ ). Fedora has 59 us mirrors out of 259, ie 22%. ( http://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/publiclist/ ). So basically, between Fedora, with a strict policy, and PLF, the difference is 18%. And I didn't count other country such as Japan, where patents on software are permitted ( http://en.swpat.org/wiki/Japan ), and where the count of PLF mirrors vs Fedora mirrors is 0 to 8. More ever, the fact that this is hosted by some private and rather anonymous company is also a important point. Ie, no .edu or big telco ever contacted PLF to host a mirror, while in France and another country, PLF have both. > Also, there are only about 400 packages for i586 in PLF mirrors. > Since most are duplicated, I wonder how many distinct packages there are ? > Somehow doubt that an unlicenced copy of quotes from the Simpsons > (one of the 2 plf packages that I didn't find also in Mandriva main) > is going to be a big attraction. You should look a little bit more closely. For example, libdvdcss2 is plf only. So does various emulator, lame ( and related like darkice ), gstreamer-bad, etc. There is amule, and similar software. More than 2. I am sure that using a small shell script, the exact number could be found, if someone want to invest the time. -- Michael Scherer