Hi Derek, Kindly the full link for club internet if possible please Johan ----- Original Message ----- From: "Derek Jennings" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, September 24, 2003 5:35 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] Best update website??
> On Wednesday 24 Sep 2003 10:02 am, Johan wrote: > > Hi, > > MDK 9.1 > > 1) Have done updating via MCC > > 2) Urpmi - sites from EASY urpmi > > 3) Downloaded the lot from site including /base/hdlist.cz - written to CD. > > This saved me a lot of grief - drive crashed and had reinstall - update now > > easy to that point. > > > > What I would like to know is how can it be known which sites change with > > new stuff and which stay constant. > > I would gues that the sites with regular updates will probably the best to > > use? > > > > Any ideas which can be regarded as the top 5 on a update/download list? > > > > Input here would be much appreciated. > > Enjoy > > Johan > > > > May this be a good day for learning > > The 'main' and 'contrib' folders will not change on *any* of the mirrors. > The only folders subject to change are 'updates'. 'plf, and 'texstar' > > With Texstar there are only 2 mirrors and the Turkish one is diabolical. > With plf there are only a few mirrors. Most are pretty poor. I find the best > is 'club-internet' > With 'updates' all the mirrors will be synced together within a few hours of > each other. So the choice comes down to performance. Some are a *lot* better > than others. Do not be misled into thinking the closest is the best. > > Some mirrors are heavily loaded and will start requiring logins during peak > periods which will lock you out. > Others become heavily loaded and suffer very poor performance. > The easy way to check is to just put the ftp address of a mirror in a browser > and see how responsive it is navigating up and down the directory tree and > downloading a sample RPM. > > After trying lots of mirrors my personal favourite is rediris.es in Spain (and > no I am not Spanish) Of course if everyone starts using it, then it will > become congested, so just forget I mentioned it. > > derek > > -- > ---------------------------------- > www.jennings.homelinux.net > http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---- > Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? > Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com >
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