On Thursday 01 September 2005 09:54, Lode Vermeiren wrote: > Christoph Thiel schreef: > >On Wed, 31 Aug 2005, Andreas Girardet wrote: > >>To bring the discussion onto a rational level again and to start a > >>proper thread about this and forget the derailed past thread, is there > >>anything that this community sees we can do to better the situation now, > >>so that Eberhard and gwdg.de won't be killed when we announce? > > > >To make it short, there isn't much we can do. The only way I see is to > >really encourage users to download via Bittorrent. Again, this scales > >better, the more users are actually using it. > > > >>I really feel for Eberhard and his frustration is just a symptom for a > >>problem that weMUST solve as a community. > > > >Use Bittorrent, that's just it! > > Bittorrent is indeed a good option, but it can't be the only one. Lots > of us, at least here in Belgium, are on ADSL. This means that uploading > directly affects your download speed, and that upload speed is generally > capped at a fraction of the maximum download speed, which is 'punished' > by the way BT works. > > Why can't openSUSE use a wider mirror system, using 'established' > mirrors like mirrorservice.org, ibiblio, ftp.belnet.be, planetmirror, > ... ? Most of these are SUSE mirrors anyway, why not put openSUSE under > this tree and make it get mirrored automagically?
We have currently too much ouput per month and the mirrors need longer syncing times than our beta schedule does allow. We will address this via seperating the rpm trees from the isos and offering a new syncing mechanism for the trees which do only need to download the deltas. But this is something for post 10.0 RC1 ... For now there is only BitTorrent. bye adrian -- Adrian Schroeter SuSE AG, Maxfeldstr. 5, 90409 Nuernberg, Germany email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
