Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (5130 mails)

[Christoph Thiel <cthiel@xxxxxxx>]

On Sat, 13 May 2006, Matt Bottrell wrote:

> I personally don't like the collection of any information.  Though it 
> doesn't stress me.
> 
> Here in Australia there isn't a decent mirror to use (the ones listed on 
> the opensuse.org site are dreadfully behind and are never updated).  As 
> such I manually select one that is fresh.
> 
> If a user has been smart enough to move away from Windows to run Linux 
> as their desktop -- they are smart enough to figure out what mirror to 
> use...

Actually, users should wast their time, looking for a mirror. They should 
just use download.openSUSE.org, which figures out what mirror to use ;) 

[download.opensuse.org by the way has seen more than 3 million hits within 
the last 48 hours -- hits in terms of directory listings and mostly 
redirects to our mirrors.]


Regards
	Christoph