The main idea for hosting a mirror is 3 fold imo... first of all, anyone who wants to update their distro doesnt have to do a large foreign download (dist-upgrading for me is nearly 3gb+ of download) It's nicer to tell a person who's just trying linux for the first time to download an image locally since it wont count towards their isp limit and is usually faster.. We should take pride in having our own resources and not depending on foreign mirrors. Also downloading from a local mirror will reduce traffic on foreign ones especially during release times.
M On Wed, May 21, 2008 at 8:47 PM, Jean Azzopardi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > You're at Uni? From what I see in my own BSC & IT course (1st year) > > I think, there's a maximum of, say, 10 who use Ubuntu. Generous > estimate, and I'm taking into consideration ppl who don't use Linux as a > main OS. Some do. I do, for instance. > > And there's me. Arch Linux 100%, with the rest of the family on Ubuntu. > > If I'm not mistaken, though, Ubuntu already has/had a Maltese server? > Was linux.org.mt hosting it or some other organisation? That said, > considering that it's the number 1 distro in Malta, (probably), it's > def. worth mentioning. > > I'm ambivalent about the whole hosting issue. I did mention Arch Linux, > but I already get enough speed, mainly from servers in france and > belgium. > > Also, why not mirror more OpenSource software? OpenOffice.org (for both > Windows and Linux), comes to mind. Firefox is rather small, so no need > to bother with that I think. > > On Wed, 2008-05-21 at 19:58 +0200, Sebastian Cachia wrote: > > > > Ubuntu (8.04) here too at the moment. Speaking from what I have seen > > at University, Ubuntu seems to be the main (only?) distro used. > > > > Having an enterprise distro mirrored would be an interesting idea, > > especially if there is any ongoing effort to promote Linux in that > > direction locally. _______________________________________________ > > _______________________________________________ > MLUG-list mailing list > [email protected] > http://linux.org.mt/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mlug-list >
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