On 17/09/2010 19:04, Peter Pöml wrote:
On Thu, Sep 16, 2010 at 09:59:40 -0400, Andrew Joakimsen wrote:
On Thu, Sep 16, 2010 at 14:32, Lew Wolfgang
wrote: My point was that it's wrong to go around shouting that SuSE is bad, just because one's own experience was bad on one machine. But just saying that SuSE is great because it works for ME does not make it great for others... some may really have problems with it.
I was also frustrated by reading that unixheads was shutting down, which has the effect of leaving only two openSuSE mirrors in the US. Both of those mirrors have reputations for poor bandwidth, leading to a discussion of "why doesn't Novell just spend a few hundred $ per month to guarantee a good mirror for the US"? The fit-and-finish of Ubunto is just noticeably better than openSuSE at this point in time. Is this a reflection of Canonical spending more money on their flagship than Novell is spending on their's?
They do on widehat.opensuse.org, but [...]
No, Novell doesn't spend money on widehat.opensuse.org. That host is generously donated by IP Exchange: http://www.ip-exchange.de/ IP Exchange also donates bandwidth that is very important to openSUSE.
Good hoster in Germany, which I can heartly recommend, after working with them for years.
not by default you need to go in and edit your repos.
Not true, download.opensuse.org sends downloads to that host just like to the other mirrors.
If you are in the US, you'll be sent to an US mirror though, if possible, because bandwidth of widehat.o.o is limited, and Germany is far away.
Peter
If you were using Ubuntu you could test to see which mirror is the best for you; you could then select it for the max. performance - or you could choose a mirror of your personal choice. The default site for s/ware is, of course, the home server - which can be rather overcrowded and slow at certain times :-) . BC -- I didn't know it was impossible when I did it. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org