Just in case nobody realized, the distros I picked to put in the poll are indeed the top distros on distrowatch!
Also, we used to previously mirror OpenOffice.org Firefox and Knoppix for the convenience of users. The point of asking who uses which distro was simply to figure out who uses what and avoid mirroring whole distributions which according to distrowatch are popular but which never hit the mediterranean sea. I indeed used most if not almost all the distros mentioned in that list. However, I would be happy to get timely ISOs during release days and updates for every day use of only one at this moment in time. Also, 1.5TB is not limiting. We just have to make sure we are not mirroring old stuff or architectures that nobody is using. For example... does anybody (in Malta) run Linux on SPARC or PPC ? Now that is an interesting question. Just my 2c. On Wed, May 21, 2008 at 9:30 PM, Sebastian Cachia <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Yeah, I'm at Uni (2nd year IT). What stream are you in Jean? You have quite > a high count. I put it at about 3 in my year who use it by choice (including > myself). A few others have used it for course requirements but that's about > it. > > 10 distros would be a bit too much, but certainly would be great if disk > space wasn't an issue. Probably best to stick to just the real popular ones. > Though I'm quite sure everybody would like to have their distro mirrored so > that they could save on the download limit, but it isn't really feasible for > just a handful of people who would make use of it. > > Perhaps a good idea would be to have a mirror of just the ISO images of the > top 10 distros instead of the entire repository. Would certainly be a lot > less disk space, and would still be good for saving the download limit of > anyone interested. > > _______________________________________________ > 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
