That's true. However, server space is an obvious issue for you, too. Ubuntu is already 200+ gb, you said? It's a rather huge amount though, what repositories are you mirroring?
Perhaps a good approach would be to grab the top 10 distrowatch distros and mirror them? You'd need a good TB of harddisk space though :S On Wed, 2008-05-21 at 21:07 +0200, Anton Xuereb wrote: > The main idea for hosting a mirror is 3 fold imo... > > first of all, anyone who wants to update their distro doesnt have to > do a large foreign download (dist-upgrading for me is nearly 3gb+ of > download) > It's nicer to tell a person who's just trying linux for the first time > to download an image locally since it wont count towards their isp > limit and is usually faster.. > We should take pride in having our own resources and not depending on > foreign mirrors. Also downloading from a local mirror will reduce > traffic on foreign ones especially during release times. > > M > > On Wed, May 21, 2008 at 8:47 PM, Jean Azzopardi > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > You're at Uni? From what I see in my own BSC & IT course (1st > year) > > I think, there's a maximum of, say, 10 who use Ubuntu. > Generous > estimate, and I'm taking into consideration ppl who don't use > Linux as a > main OS. Some do. I do, for instance. > > And there's me. Arch Linux 100%, with the rest of the family > on Ubuntu. > > If I'm not mistaken, though, Ubuntu already has/had a Maltese > server? > Was linux.org.mt hosting it or some other organisation? That > said, > considering that it's the number 1 distro in Malta, > (probably), it's > def. worth mentioning. > > I'm ambivalent about the whole hosting issue. I did mention > Arch Linux, > but I already get enough speed, mainly from servers in france > and > belgium. > > Also, why not mirror more OpenSource software? OpenOffice.org > (for both > Windows and Linux), comes to mind. Firefox is rather small, so > no need > to bother with that I think. > > > On Wed, 2008-05-21 at 19:58 +0200, Sebastian Cachia wrote: > > > > Ubuntu (8.04) here too at the moment. Speaking from what I > have seen > > at University, Ubuntu seems to be the main (only?) distro > used. > > > > Having an enterprise distro mirrored would be an interesting > idea, > > especially if there is any ongoing effort to promote Linux > in that > > > direction locally. > _______________________________________________ > > > _______________________________________________ > MLUG-list mailing list > [email protected] > http://linux.org.mt/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mlug-list > > > _______________________________________________ > MLUG-list mailing list > [email protected] > http://linux.org.mt/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mlug-list _______________________________________________ MLUG-list mailing list [email protected] http://linux.org.mt/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mlug-list
