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Re: [opensuse] Download issues for upcoming beta4
- From: Christoph Thiel <cthiel@xxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 1 Sep 2005 08:32:10 +0200 (CEST)
- Message-id: <Pine.LNX.4.63.0509010819570.23913@xxxxxxxxxxx>
On Wed, 31 Aug 2005, Andreas Girardet wrote:
> To bring the discussion onto a rational level again and to start a
> proper thread about this and forget the derailed past thread, is there
> anything that this community sees we can do to better the situation now,
> so that Eberhard and gwdg.de won't be killed when we announce?
To make it short, there isn't much we can do. The only way I see is to
really encourage users to download via Bittorrent. Again, this scales
better, the more users are actually using it.
> I really feel for Eberhard and his frustration is just a symptom for a
> problem that weMUST solve as a community.
Use Bittorrent, that's just it!
> I can personally offer a server to be online at the same time as the
> announcement is done (as I have access to the iso's), but to be honest
> it is not near as grunty as Eberhard's server, but maybe all together we
> can make a difference? And I can get the torrent live as soon as the
> announcement is done.
Can you please send me the URL (as pm), so I can put it into
download.opensuse.org...?
Regards
Christoph
> To bring the discussion onto a rational level again and to start a
> proper thread about this and forget the derailed past thread, is there
> anything that this community sees we can do to better the situation now,
> so that Eberhard and gwdg.de won't be killed when we announce?
To make it short, there isn't much we can do. The only way I see is to
really encourage users to download via Bittorrent. Again, this scales
better, the more users are actually using it.
> I really feel for Eberhard and his frustration is just a symptom for a
> problem that weMUST solve as a community.
Use Bittorrent, that's just it!
> I can personally offer a server to be online at the same time as the
> announcement is done (as I have access to the iso's), but to be honest
> it is not near as grunty as Eberhard's server, but maybe all together we
> can make a difference? And I can get the torrent live as soon as the
> announcement is done.
Can you please send me the URL (as pm), so I can put it into
download.opensuse.org...?
Regards
Christoph
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