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