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Re: Announce: KDE Beta 3 released (fwd)
On Mon, 2 Feb 1998 14:52:04 +0200 (IST), Evgeny Stambulchik
<fnevgeny@plasma-gate.weizmann.ac.il> 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.
There is a RedHat mirror at TAU (under ftp.tau.ac.il).
Last time I downloaded KDE Beta 2, I took it from the RedHat contrib
mirror. It was there about a week after the official annoucement.
>Regards,
>
>Evgeny
Udi