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Re: Announce: KDE Beta 3 released (fwd)



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
FACT: all Israeli universies are connected with 10Mb/sec backbone
(as a matter of fact it is full dublux - so better than LAN ethernet )
>	 - 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.
well criticisizing is easy - not that I'm claiming that there is any
planning
why not do something about it @weizmann ?
did you know that over 50% of the capcicty of the overloaded
TAU(MACHBA)-IIX line was used by ppl from SP's pull stuff from mirrors on
ftp.tau.ac.il ?
(extra i planned but needs to be payed for _ I'm not sure it's foune
throught the beurocracy yet )
 > 
> Regards,
> 
> Evgeny
>  
	Rafi
> 
> 
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