Announcing the Ubuntu 5.10 release [UA]

[John]

Michael Shigorin wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 13, 2005 at 12:14:03PM +0100, Colin Watson wrote:
> 
>>Use the 'ubuntu-releases' module on se.releases.ubuntu.com.
> 
> 
> BTW, there's going to be i386/amd64 ISO mirror here:
> ftp://ftp.linux.kiev.ua/pub/Linux/Ubuntu/releases/5.10/
> 
> It's IX-local FTP, no use trying to check it out outside
> Ukraine... not very SA (due to that IX I can have 100 Mbit link
> to that mirror at home for $20/mo) but still a bit inconvenient
> to explain.
> 
> If someone adds that to mirror list with [UA-IX only] remark,
> maybe it helps some folks.
> 
> 5.04 is also there and one person asked me about mirroring
> unstable but unless there are at least a few users it's likely
> to be a half-useful proxy, and even sponsored nightly traffic
> costs someone somewhat. (disk space tends to get shorter too...)

Configuring Apache as a caching proxy can be useful; may be slow for 
particular files the first time they're used and when they're changed, 
but quick from then on, and you only cache what people actually use - eg 
not most of Universe.