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On Tue, 2003-09-09 at 17:34, Sascha Beaumont wrote:
> More interestingly, there is a debian, gentoo and slackware mirror on
> ftp2.jetstreamgames.co.nz.
Yes, there is.
> By the look of things, its up to date (debian is less than 24 hours old)
> although I'm still using ftp.nz.debian.org for most of my downloads.
You can use as many mirrors as you like - your distro should be capable
of downloading from whichever has the most up-to-date version of package
X.
> The HUGE advantage of this, is that you can download a tiny netinst
> (~10mb or ~40mb with the base tgz) and then netinst from the JSG mirror
> just as if you had a 1Mbit+ connection.
Yes - its very cool if you're on DSL. Not everyone is remember.
> The only reason for paradise to maintain a mirror now would be if the
> "free traffic" for those on cable doesnt include the jetstreamgames
> servers.
That is true too. Remember the paradise mirror is not restricted - even
DSL users and dialup users can access it.
> Maybe we could just petition for a DNS update pointing debian.paradise
> to ftp2.jetstreamgames :)
NOOOOO!!!! Whats the point in that? The whole idea of a mirror is that
there are multiple repositories... and raising the awareness of Open
Source software with organisations is never a bad thing!
:-)
