Finding mirrors for Xubuntu

[Pasi Lallinaho]

Vincent wrote:
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>
> On Sun, Apr 26, 2009 at 2:45 PM, Charlie Kravetz
> <cjk at teamcharliesangels.com <mailto:cjk at teamcharliesangels.com>> wrote:
>
>     On Sun, 26 Apr 2009 14:25:21 +0200
>     Vincent <mailinglists at vinnl.nl <mailto:mailinglists at vinnl.nl>> wrote:
>
>     > On Fri, Apr 24, 2009 at 5:37 PM, Charlie Kravetz
>     > <cjk at teamcharliesangels.com <mailto:cjk at teamcharliesangels.com>
>     > > wrote:
>     >
>     > > On Fri, 24 Apr 2009 16:47:20 +0200
>     > > Vincent <mailinglists at vinnl.nl <mailto:mailinglists at vinnl.nl>>
>     wrote:
>     > >
>     > > > On Fri, Apr 24, 2009 at 4:11 PM, Steve Dodier
>     > > > <sidnioulz at gmail.com <mailto:sidnioulz at gmail.com>> wrote:
>     > > >
>     > > > > Hello,
>     > > > >
>     > > > > I'm sending this email because I'd like to know how we should
>     > > > > proceed in order to find mirrors for Xubuntu. I'm especially
>     > > > > thinking about french (and this is probably true in many other
>     > > > > countries) universities, which usually sponsor Linux
>     > > > > distributions (for instance, Nantes sponsors Ubuntu).
>     Cody, I'd
>     > > > > appreciate having your point of view over this. I think
>     it's no
>     > > > > harm to ask wether or not we can have a mirror from a few
>     > > > > universities.
>     > > > >
>     > > > > Thanks in advance.
>     > > > >
>     > > > >
>     > > > Have you taken a look at the existing mirrors?
>     > > > http://xubuntu.org/get I think there are enough mirrors as is,
>     > > > and there also are a few universities among them.
>     > > >
>     > >
>     > > It might be enough if they were valid. 24 hours after releasing
>     > > Xubuntu 9.04, you can not download from Russian Federation,
>     > > Germany, Australia, and Europe. Seems like more mirrors could be
>     > > helpful.
>     >
>     >
>     > Yeah, true. (But, by the way... Europe? Where is that, exactly?
>     > Eastern Europe? (The Netherlands, Bulgaria, Portugal, etc. are all
>     > Europe. Perhaps this one could have a more accurate description or
>     > something? Or am I just not getting something?)
>     >
>
>     I don't know where the mirror is. I just take the names as shown on
>     http://xubuntu.org/get . I do not maintain the website, and can not
>     change anything on it. It is shown as "se.archive.ubuntu.com
>     <http://se.archive.ubuntu.com>", which I
>     think is in Sweden.
>
>
> Hmm, shall I change it to Sweden then?
To avoid confusion, I would change it to "Europe (Sweden)". I think it's
quite a good idea to have a "central" Europe server which name starts
with Europe.

On an another nore, I think there should be no "free.fr" after the
French mirror, if that is not explicitly asked for.
>  
>
>
>     I do think a few more sites mirroring xubuntu would be greatly
>     beneficial. Europe is huge. United States is huge. Xubuntu has one
>     mirror in the United States, Ubuntu has 23. Xubuntu has 1 mirror in
>     Australia, Ubuntu has 7. Xubuntu has 1 mirror in France, Ubuntu
>     has 13.
>
>     As of today, 26 April 2009, the mirror in Germany is still giving
>     a 404
>     error. Perhaps having two mirrors minimum per country would be a good
>     thing. It would increase the workload only slightly, since the push to
>     the mirrors is automatic. Once added to the website, maintenance is
>     minumum. It greatly increases the chances of getting Xubuntu out in a
>     timely manner.
>
>  
> Agreed, if more mirrors are set up be sure to poke me then I'll update
> the website :)
> -- 
> Vincent
Thanks for the valuable discussion and sorry I've been so quiet thus far.

New mirrors are always nice to have, but we also should think about the
quality – if somebody is mirroring us, they should provide relatively
prompt service at any time. If a mirror is not working most of the time
it only gives headache to our users, not pleasure.

-- 
Pasi Lallinaho
Xubuntu Marketing Lead
Web-designer, graphic artist
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