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  • From: Eric Sandall <eric AT sandall.us>
  • To: SM Discuss <sm-discuss AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [SM-Discuss] Help people find a mirror
  • Date: Thu, 11 Aug 2005 12:57:36 -0700 (PDT)

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On Thu, 11 Aug 2005, Adam Clark wrote:
Hi all,

As we roll towards 1.0, and as we are now beginning to get a little more
press attention, or web linkage, than we've had in the past, I think
it's important that, when at all possible, we direct people to do their
Source Mage downloading from a mirror.

I've recently gone and updated our downloads and mirror pages on our
website and added an informative file to the root of
download.sourcemage.org to try and encourage people to choose a mirror
rather than download from our main download location.

When people drop in to IRC or ask in the forums or wherever, let's tell
people that the best thing to do is visit http://sourcemage.org/mirrors

I've also been working with mirror operators to try and get the mirrors
to operate properly, so that the mirrors are actually up to date,
purging old stuff when it disappears off of download.sm.org, etc.

While we don't have a ton of traffic currently, it will become more and
more important to direct traffic off-site as the outside interest level
grows.

Thanks!

Oh, and as usual, if you notice any issues on any mirrors or our own
download site, please file them bugs!

-Adam

Thanks Adam. :)

We've also looked at Torrents (at least for the ISOs), which we have
listed in various places:
Both PPC and x86:
http://torrents.osdir.com/index.php?view=Source%20Mage%20GNU/Linux%200.9.3
http://tracker.shlrm.org:4300/

PPC:
http://www.torrentreactor.to/torrents/view_38029

x86:
http://www.torrentreactor.to/torrents/view_38030

Some of these may be dead now, but I know the shlrm.org one is still
up. ;)

Ibiblio is also (just received this e-mail today) hosting Torrents:
- ----
This is a quick note to let you all know that ibiblio's BitTorrent
site
is open for business. We're still working through details of how to
get
content seeded directly from ibiblio storage space, though. We're
working to get Linux distros and audio/video content online ASAP.

In the meantime, however, you're welcome to create an account and
email
the torrent.ibiblio webmaster (me) for contributor status. If you're
familiar with BT, you can seed files with a regular BT client until we
get the ibiblio permaseeding smoothed out.

http://torrent.ibiblio.org

Oh, and in case you missed the Slashdot posting,

http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/08/10/2136214&tid=188&tid=95&tid=1
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- -sandalle

- --
Eric Sandall | Source Mage GNU/Linux Developer
eric AT sandall.us | http://www.sourcemage.org/
http://eric.sandall.us/ | SysAdmin @ Inst. Shock Physics @ WSU
http://counter.li.org/ #196285 | http://www.shock.wsu.edu/
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