On 9/23/07, Don Gould <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Do we need to put the pot around for some drive space?. Not yet. We have some 50Gbytes available for our use. Thus we have enough space to hold a large enough archive to get a good indication whether this exercise has value or not.
> How many more disks could be squash into those machines? That all depends on the size of what we wish to make available. My current thoughts are to not carry historical, unstable, or release candidate distros, yet to have a few of the fringe and special purpose ones. I need guidance as to the desirability of Xandros and Freespire/Linspire. > I'll put up $20 towards some drive space. Thanks for the thought, but as of now I'm not putting out the begging bowl. Let's see if people actually use the facility before we spend money on it. So far ~35 ppl. have downloaded the list of distros, and I'm not quite sure how to interpret that number. The general rules I'm currently applying to make the selecton are:- 1) Up to date and installable from a LiveCD releases. ( Almost all are ) 2) No foreign language distros, or the international parts of the big ones. 3) No historical, unstable, or release candidate distros. 4) I am attempting to be totally agnostic as far as packaging and dependency resolution methods are concerned. 5) I realise that what is trash for one person is treasure for another, but otoh I don't intend to create an enormous archive of valueless "shovel-ware" either. "The Autocrat" will decide! 6) Special purpose, and fringe distributions have a place. 7) We are not strictly limited to Linux only. i.e. Solaris, The *BSDs, The HURD, Syllable, and Ractos are all in the archive. 8) Absolutely NO warez. -- Sincerely etc. Christopher Sawtell
