On 13/04/07, Daniel Ouellet <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Maurice Janssen wrote:
> On Friday, April 13, 2007 at 15:16:41 -0400, Daniel Ouellet wrote:
>> If there was a real concrete effort, not just the usual vapor ware, I
>> would/could offer hosting in Equinix peering point, for downloading
>> binaries,
>
> That's in the US? Is that OK with regard to export restrictions?
Hmmm... You got a point there. I always forget about the backward
mentality of some leaders (hmmm, wonder if the term apply really) in
this place where they think everyone else is behind in technology, etc.
But download of files is available from many Universities in the US as
well. Are they blocking the download for US only?
So, I can't do it then, can I, not even built the binaries either? I
don't have the answer, but you raise a good point that I didn't think
about. Not been born here doesn't help me to narrow my thinking I guess.
And we call that a global network?
Not backed by any research or asking, but kth.se and uio.no seem to be
happy to mirror quite a bit of stuff, and I believe also on rather
good connections. Probably quite a few other mirrors would be happy to
host this, if this would take off. So I guess the major point is
getting in place the infrastructure to build things, and setting a
procedure to do so. Also possibly preparing a way to apply those
binary patches, but the current upgrade procedures do the trick as
well.
--
viq
