16 Dec
2014
16 Dec
'14
4:08 a.m.
On Monday 15 December 2014 17:58:37 you wrote:
I would pay $15, that is a good starting price for a mirror of the archive.
--
Peace,
Greg
On Monday 15
December 2014 15:23:42 you wrote:
This is a good idea; even better would be a TDE branded drive if they
could be obtained cheaply. I know some fundraising ideas were bantered
about earlier, then they died as I didn't have the time to look into them.
I should resurrect those ideas. :-)
Would $15 + shipping be acceptable for a full Debian/Ubuntu mirror on a
USB key?
Tim On Mon December 15 2014 15:18:38 Timothy Pearson
wrote:
How about making usbkeys available with a mirror on it . For Debian, top
level
of /debian would be nice.
You can get smaller sized usbkeys at Amazon, 8gb for $5, not sure how
much I
would pay for this service ...it is worth something though.
http://tinyurl.com/npefdgs
"Never underestimate the bandwidth of a station wagon full of tapes"
--
Peace,
Greg M
Archive SCC As far as I know this has been resolved with the
new mirroring system.
Kuiper seems to have stopped updating many days ago. Copernicus
then updated for a while but hasn't as far as I can see updated
in at least three days. It seems to have roughly 26% of R14 final
but it doesn't seem to be used by the redirector.
(I have not seen nightly builds being mirrored so I don't know
why mirrorservice.org is no longer updating.)
Consequently significant portions of each install are served
from the master server at lower speeds over the congested uplink.
I've seen downloads from the master server at reasonable speeds
but I've too often seen them crawling at 8KBps.
In short the new system seems to be reliable but slow for regular
installs and upgrades. When R14 Final attracts more downloaders
I would expect further declines in download speeds. Meanwhile
for those of us who need to create local partial mirrors the new
mirroring system is unusable until a complete and consistent
mirror forms.
--Mike