<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 > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > -- > > Neil Sikka > >
