I did notice it, because you mentioned Damn Small Linux, which is hardly a mainstream distro, but it's top 10 on distrowatch.
I agree bout the isos. Especially for opensuse, maybe debian/fedora etc? On Wed, 2008-05-21 at 21:50 +0200, Raphael Borg Ellul Vincenti wrote: > 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 _______________________________________________ MLUG-list mailing list [email protected] http://linux.org.mt/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mlug-list
