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Re: Announce: KDE Beta 3 released (fwd)



On Mon, 2 Feb 1998, Shachar Tal wrote:

> We'll soon have a sunsite mirror in the Technion. as for mirroring
> anything else, you're invited to give me locations and I'll mirror.
> As for the duplicate mirrors, I believe Evgeny is correct. ALL
> universities in israel has slackware and redhat mirrored, while the
> Technion has 3(!) mirrors of redhat.

Mirroring RedHat 6 times within MACHBA is a plain waste of bandwidth, if
you ask me. 

--Ariel

> 
> Shachar.
> 
> On Mon, 2 Feb 1998, Evgeny Stambulchik wrote:
> 
> > Ariel Nowersztern <reln@cs.huji.ac.il> wrote:
> > 
> > >  KDE is a great thing. If you haven't already, this is a good time to try 
> > >  it out. Although its still in beta, Beta2 was very stable, and this is 
> > >  beta3 - so there's nothing to fear.
> > 
> > Isn't it strange that in the very long list of mirrors there are none in
> > Israel??? BTW, can't maintainers of ftp mirrors of Israeli universities come to
> > an agreement about sharing the mirroring job? For example, every university has
> > a local copy of slackware, which is meaningless since it doesn't matter whether
> > one downloads it from his local campus server at 1Mb/s or from another one at
> > 150Kb/s - but none mirrors Incoming on sunsite, for example. In fact, I belive
> > there are no civilized countries but Israel left which don't have a single
> > complete mirror of sunsite on an academic ftp server.
> > 
> > Regards,
> > 
> > Evgeny
> >  
> > 
> > 
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> 
> Shachar Tal
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