On Sun, Apr 26, 2009 at 2:45 PM, Charlie Kravetz <[email protected] > wrote:
> On Sun, 26 Apr 2009 14:25:21 +0200 > Vincent <[email protected]> wrote: > > > On Fri, Apr 24, 2009 at 5:37 PM, Charlie Kravetz > > <[email protected] > > > wrote: > > > > > On Fri, 24 Apr 2009 16:47:20 +0200 > > > Vincent <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > > > On Fri, Apr 24, 2009 at 4:11 PM, Steve Dodier > > > > <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > > > > > Hello, > > > > > > > > > > I'm sending this email because I'd like to know how we should > > > > > proceed in order to find mirrors for Xubuntu. I'm especially > > > > > thinking about french (and this is probably true in many other > > > > > countries) universities, which usually sponsor Linux > > > > > distributions (for instance, Nantes sponsors Ubuntu). Cody, I'd > > > > > appreciate having your point of view over this. I think it's no > > > > > harm to ask wether or not we can have a mirror from a few > > > > > universities. > > > > > > > > > > Thanks in advance. > > > > > > > > > > > > > > Have you taken a look at the existing mirrors? > > > > http://xubuntu.org/get I think there are enough mirrors as is, > > > > and there also are a few universities among them. > > > > > > > > > > It might be enough if they were valid. 24 hours after releasing > > > Xubuntu 9.04, you can not download from Russian Federation, > > > Germany, Australia, and Europe. Seems like more mirrors could be > > > helpful. > > > > > > Yeah, true. (But, by the way... Europe? Where is that, exactly? > > Eastern Europe? (The Netherlands, Bulgaria, Portugal, etc. are all > > Europe. Perhaps this one could have a more accurate description or > > something? Or am I just not getting something?) > > > > I don't know where the mirror is. I just take the names as shown on > http://xubuntu.org/get . I do not maintain the website, and can not > change anything on it. It is shown as "se.archive.ubuntu.com", which I > think is in Sweden. > Hmm, shall I change it to Sweden then? > > I do think a few more sites mirroring xubuntu would be greatly > beneficial. Europe is huge. United States is huge. Xubuntu has one > mirror in the United States, Ubuntu has 23. Xubuntu has 1 mirror in > Australia, Ubuntu has 7. Xubuntu has 1 mirror in France, Ubuntu has 13. > > As of today, 26 April 2009, the mirror in Germany is still giving a 404 > error. Perhaps having two mirrors minimum per country would be a good > thing. It would increase the workload only slightly, since the push to > the mirrors is automatic. Once added to the website, maintenance is > minumum. It greatly increases the chances of getting Xubuntu out in a > timely manner. Agreed, if more mirrors are set up be sure to poke me then I'll update the website :) -- Vincent
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