I agree with this argument. Also, I am here to add more reason on that. Not only that the download speed is low, it is also hard for downloading process with scripts and text-based browser/downloader.
I think that we should even avoid using javascripted web pages for downloading. There are many of us (including myself) who use wget or lynx to get the package. -----Original Message----- From: Bruce Dubbs <[email protected]> Sender: [email protected] Date: Wed, 12 Sep 2012 11:30:00 To: BLFS Development List<[email protected]> Reply-To: BLFS Development List <[email protected]> Subject: [blfs-dev] Avoiding sourceforge I mentioned before that I dislike sourceforge. I just had another instance as to why. I was updating the master files repository with virtuoso-opensource-6.1.6.tar.gz. That's about 115 MB. The download speed was generally less than 200 KB/sec. Sometimes as low as 15 KB/sec. In this case, it took 10 minutes. The problem does not occur on other sites. The kernel, for instance will download at over 1 MB/second. GNU sites, debian, mozilla, and almost all other sites offer good download speed. I'd like to request that editors try to find alternative sites to sourceforge. If that's the only site available, please offer anduin as an alternate source. Generally, I update the master files repo every morning and anduin rsyncs to the master twice a day (7:07 AM and PM GMT) from the changes committed the previous day. -- Bruce -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
