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Re: Israeli mirrors of Mandrake



> On Wed, 25 Apr 2001, Ilya Konstantinov wrote:
> 
> > On Wed, Apr 25, 2001 at 04:16:55PM +0300, Nadav Har'El wrote:
> > > Of course I'm not refering only to Redhat7.0 - remove the old Mandrake
> > > to make room for the new Mandrake. I didn't check what's exactly on that
> > > server, but I'm sure you can find some old stuff you can remove.
> > 
> > We might remove:
> > - old (pre-2.1) KDE builds.
> 
> I don't mind
> 
> > - pre-2.2 kernels.
> > - .gz versions of kernels.
> 
> Is any of those required for being an "official" kernel mirror?
> 
> If yes: would anybody mind?
> 



Of course there is a tradeoff. However, if possible I believe that being an 
official mirror is desirable:
The site is probably being listed as an official mirror -> publicity (at list 
on the list of kernel mirrors), hopefully more users, another building block 
to make IGLU a central resource for the Israeli Linux users, hopefully more 
companies donating to IGLU, perhaps server admins receive important messages 
that are/will be sent regarding the mirror.

After the above paragraph I managed to convince myself that I might be right. 
There fore I went to www.kernel.org/mirrors and found:

    Each mirror will have a full archive of /pub/linux and 
    /pub/software, although they may not carry both the gzip
    and bzip2 compression formats.
 


> BTW: is the other kernel mirror (netvision) up-to-date?
> 


I did not check their actual site. Yet according to www.kernel.org/mirrors 
both them and IGLU are officials, although they only carry gzip versions.

But I do believe that both formats are important to have: bzip is smaller but 
some might not have a bzip compressor. For example, as far as I know winzip 7 
can decompress tar.gz. Not sure about its capabilities when considering bzip.


> -- 
> Tzafrir Cohen
> mailto:tzafrir@technion.ac.il
> http://www.technion.ac.il/~tzafrir
> 
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	Shaul Karl <shaulka@bezeqint.net>



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