Christoph Thiel schreef:
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!
Bittorrent is indeed a good option, but it can't be the only one. Lots of us, at least here in Belgium, are on ADSL. This means that uploading directly affects your download speed, and that upload speed is generally capped at a fraction of the maximum download speed, which is 'punished' by the way BT works. Why can't openSUSE use a wider mirror system, using 'established' mirrors like mirrorservice.org, ibiblio, ftp.belnet.be, planetmirror, ... ? Most of these are SUSE mirrors anyway, why not put openSUSE under this tree and make it get mirrored automagically?
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.
After the first beta I put one of my boxes online as a mirror as well for a day, but it proved to be too big of a load on the rest of the sites. I burned about 100 Gb of bandwidth in one day, so there's definitely a need for fast and reliable mirrors.
Best, Lode