On Fri, Nov 29, 2002 at 04:58:30PM -0500, David B Harris wrote: > On Fri, 29 Nov 2002 15:58:51 -0500 > Joey Hess <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > The comparison is only fair with organizations that *want* you do do > > so(so not redhat, probably not openbsd, or mandrake, or others whose > > principal developers try to sell cds). > > Strictly speaking, given the ISO mirroring situation, we've never wanted > people to use full 640M ISOs when we knew that 99% of people downloading > would use a couple hundreds megs, at most.
"Given the ISO mirroring situation"? Care to elucidate? I seem to remember seeing several offers of machines and bandwidth recently. It would seem to make sense to at least make it relatively easy for mirror admins who *do* have the available resources to provide ISO images. Even a single, reliable, possibly rate-limited, source for ISOs would be an improvement on what we currently have. Rate-limiting the source would, if necessary, provide a disincentive to people who would otherwise just jump in and download ISOs rather than using Jigdo. Cheers, Nick -- Nick Phillips -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fine day for friends. So-so day for you.
