On Tuesday 06 April 2004 08:50 pm, Alaa The Great wrote:
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> Greg Meyer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > You just have to manually check the mirrors until you find
> > one that has been updated to the new structure. Try here
> >
> > ftp://ftp.proxad.net/pub/Distributions_Linux/mandrake/devel
>
> hey thanks for the link, I can't believe how impatient we are
> (me included).
Problem is once a known to be good mirror is posted to a
public list, it becomes that much more worthless. IE, /.'d ...
and of diminished use to everyone. In the long run the advice to
"just have to manually check the mirrors until you find one that
has been updated ..." is the best advice. Proxad has become
slow, even unreachable sometimes since it was revealed on lists
that it was 'currently' first to update to current cooker.
Please remember Mandrake doesn't have any mirrors. Those that
do mirror Mandrake, do so as a donation of disk space, bandwidth,
and administration. "pile'n on" as is often the result of
public annoucements to ML's, an will only result in these
donators reducing allowed users, bandwidth, or worse ... drop the
whole deal altogether.
These are the mirrors that also host past releases of Mandrake
(and 10.0 is a past release). They also host other distros. If
Mandrake users start crowdin their mirror, all they have to do is
shut it all off. So it's a problem for 9.x-10.0 users also. Many
already allow only so many anonymous logins, so their only choice
is too quit hosting Mandrake if the load becomes more than their
willin to give.
BTW, Proxad is not the best mirror right now. It was for a few
days ..... but the word got out too fast ;( There was a good
USA mirror till it got advertised on Mandrake ML's.
>
> but it would have been better if Mandrake made some form of
> formal announcement in a flash newsletter and on the club
> website.
Your sources are limited. The info has been out there for over
a week. The schedule was posted many months ago, an revised
since. http://qa.mandrakesoft.com/twiki/bin/view/Main/Mandrake10
There's also a link and tenative schedule for 10.1 there
If you really care to be informed, subscribe and _lurk_ on the
development list ... cooker. The links are probly already
bookmarked for you, click on the 'MandrakeSoft' folder in your
bookmarks.
> 10 Community was overall a great experience and I think its a
> good idea, but there was a big problem in communicating what
> exactly it is about and how it will be implemented.
10.0 CE was great for many. 10.0 Official should be as good
for problem users/hardware. Better yet, 10.1
--
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