Hi, I gave Debian a roll this Christmas and I was pleased to note the speed with which the Debian packages were downloading. Consider that Debian packages are just ar archives of the binaries and other staff. They are not compressed at all.
Unfortunatley, I soon found that Debian is not for me. I will not go into this as it is not fair to complain on the small nuances that irritated me rather the big picture in which Debian excels, and I am not writing this about Debian. I was downloading the Debian Packages from http://debian.res.um.edu.mt/debian/, but now I am back to more familiar territory: Slackware, and updating Slackware involves rsyncing packages from a Slackware mirror. The nearest mirror (in Italy) is not updated with Slackware 13.37 (a.k.a. leet) - the latest Slack release, so I rsync with mirrors in Belgium, or wherever. As far as I know I have never met any of you, but I have a vague hope that someone in this mailing list is the sysadmin of this local Debian Mirror at the UM. If that is the case, I would appreciate if a Slackware mirror may be included. Naturally I would be ready to help if that is it is feasible. Otherwise I will try to figure out how to set my own mirror, but I am discouraged by the electricity bill ... Chris
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