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H. Peter Anvin wrote:
>
> Followup to: <Pine.BSI.3.96.980831205824.26377R-100000@daemon.xs4all.nl>
> By author: Thomas Wouters <thomas@xs4all.nl>
> In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel
> >
> > kernel.org does have mirrors, and yes, they should be used, but kernel.org
> > cannot do much about it, other than friendly notes saying where to find
> > mirror sites. I think the 'ftp.<country>.freebse.org' setup is a nice
> > example. It's not perfect, because being in the same country doesn't mean it
> > has a fast link to you, but it's about as simple as it gets.
> >
> > Whoever administrates kernel.org (Linus ? HPA ?) -- I think there are a few
> > sites around the world that wouldn't mind the 'ftp.<>.kernel.org' name... I
> > know of 2, at least, here in .nl. The question is, does anyone (at
> > transmeta) have time to organize it ? :)
> >
> > Regards,
> > Thomas.
> >
> >
>
> It's on my list of things to do.
>
> -hpa

What should be the minimum bandwidth required to be on the round robin
list? 1.5Mbits, 4.5Mbits, etc. What is transmeta currently running?
I am in the process of setting up a mirror of various distros (redhat,
ultralinux, cpan), so another shoud not be a big deal.


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