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Re: il.kernel.org



Stanislav Malyshev a.k.a Frodo wrote:
> 
> I see that there's still no il.kernel.org. North Korea, Iran and Lesotho
> have it, Swaziland, Vanuatu and Zimbabwe have it. Israel doesn't. There's
> no 20M of diskspace in any of Israeli universities and companies? Should
> every subscriber of Linux-IL donate 5 NIS to buy it? Or what really is the
> problem with it?

Oh well, this was exactly my initial reaction when I saw for the first
time that nicely formatted list of mirrors on kernel.org. But then I
calmed down, and thought: FTW, for what we need that? Mirror for the
sake of mirror? To show to everyone that .il is not worse then North
Korea, Iran and Lesotho? Remember "me too, me too" threads? I wonder
what is the use of Holy See mirror as well as dozen of others. This is
example of noise many people making around Linux the last time instead
of doing meaningful things. I downloaded several time from .uk and .de
mirrors, it was pretty fast (OTOH, .us didn't work for me).

So, don't count on my 5 NIS. :-)

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