I think now they call it Ubuntu.
-Derek
Bernie Hackett wrote:
<flame retardant undergarments = 100%>
Debian still exists?!?
On Feb 12, 2008 4:58 PM, brian raszap <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
i think if we mirror a distro it should be Debian. if we mirror more than
one then Debian should be one of those.
the best idea seems to be torrents for the actual distro and mirrors only
for the packages...
~Brian
On Feb 11, 2008 5:07 PM, Neil Sikka <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Hey. it sounds like a cool idea for us to mirror distros. it also sounds
cool to have Maryland mirroring packages like ebuilds for gentoo or rpms for
Fedora etc. I would definitely use it. Why does the business school mirror
linux????
On Mon, Feb 11, 2008 at 4:32 PM, Nick Cummings <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I would definitely use mirrors of CD images for Ubuntu if there were
some hosted by the UMLUG, as things can get quite bogged down around
release. In recent times I've just used the torrents to download
images, but sometimes if can be hard to even get those, so if nothing
else it would actually be helpful if we could just mirror the torrent
files (which are, obviously, small).
The other thing that can get bogged down is updates from the repository
when a significant number of package updates are available at once.
While I realize that hosting a repository would take a lot of space,
might it be possible and useful to host only the updates or security
repository mirror with only more modest requirements?
Just a few ideas,
Nick
Ken Tossell wrote:
Hi UMLUG,
I'm sure some of you know the LUG used to maintain a mirror for
various distributions on AFS. Unfortunately, it was last updated in
May 2004, with Fedora Core 2.
I'd like to get it going again. I've started pulling down a few
distributions' CD/DVD archives, but I'd like to know how much
interest you all have in a local mirror, so:
- Do you think we should operate a distribution mirror? Would you use
it?
- Should we mirror just CD/DVD images or also host package archives?
(This
means a lot of space, but we have it.)
- What distributions, if any, should the mirror have? (The business
school
already mirrors CentOS.)
- Should this mirror be accessible from off the campus (with
restrictions,
such as only allowing UMD users, and depending on the university's
OK)?
- Other projects?
- Ken
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Neil Sikka
