Karl Berry: > How much traffic can you handle? Next Whonix version has ~3 GB file > size and the current version has ~1000 downloads per week and who > knows how many people will try it out when next version is > announced. It is still hosted on sourceforge and before I upload it > to savannah, I wanted to ask if you can handle the load. > > Most definitely not! We can't undertake to be a principal distribution > (or hosting) point for a whole distro.
Ok, I won't do then. > I was under the impression from > your submission that we were just going to host your build scripts, > documentation, etc., Not sure how I created that impression. Sorry if I did so. I think, originally I came because you are savannah offers direct download links. :) > which we are glad to do. Thanks. > I can't find it now, sigh, but there used to be some statement in the > requirements about how we cannot host whole distros, we just don't have > those kind of resources. Ok. > It's possible that the FSF could do it, on another machine, independent > of Savannah. Most of the free distros are mirrored there. Please see > http://mirror.fsf.org/ and email [email protected] to follow up. I don't think it will be possible. They have a quite firm policy (Guidelines for Free System Distributions) and if Debian didn't manage to fulfill it, surely Whonix can't either. In theory, an option could be to base Whonix on a distribution which is on that list already, but that might not be doable for technical reasons.
