On Mittwoch 18 Februar 2009, Chris Lamb wrote: > Sebastian Hilbert wrote: > > I don't fully understand your point yet. Most of the bandwidth will be > > consumed by downloading prepared images. > > Sure, but uploading images in the size order of ~1GB to anywhere takes > time and bandwidth. In particular, SourceForge is a terrible enterprise > and I would not like to rely on their services nor have a project > affiliated with them.
Point taken. Having a build server at an ISP only makes sense if there is a sponsor to provide the bandwidth for user downloads. > > Incidentally, it does not seem like there are any plans to make SUSE > Studio free software (in fact, almost the reverse): > > http://codepad.org/OTrc2e8E I see. Well. I guess they are looking for ways to get money out of their investment. We will most likely see netbook manufacturers buy instances of their service and produce images. -- Sebastian Hilbert Leipzig / Germany [www.gnumed.de] -> PGP welcome, HTML ->/dev/null -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
