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Date: Thu, 5 Feb 2004 13:16:02 +0000 (GMT)
From: Darren Austin <darren (at) slackware (dot) org (dot) uk>
To: mirrors@slackware.com
Subject: UK Slackware mirror.

Hi,
I just wanted to inform you of a new Slackware mirror site in the UK,
and ask that it be added to the mirrors section of your website.

Access is provided by:
* FTP: ftp.slackware.org.uk/
* RSYNC: rsync.slackware.org.uk::slackware/
* HTTP: Unavailable at present, but coming soon

We currently mirror slackware-9.0, 9.1 and current in full and sync on a daily
basis against ftp.slackware.com. Once we have expanded the disk space a
little more, a fuller tree will be mirrored.

We also provide an "unofficial-isos" directory where we build a
Slackware-current Install and Extra's ISO whenever there is an update to the
current tree. To our knowledge, there are no mirror sites which provide this
extra, and we feel it may be worth nothing on the website (if you guys think
so too )

Thanks for your time

Darren Austin.

On Thu, 5 Feb 2004 13:19:29 +0000,
Darren Austin <devnull@slackware.org.uk> wrote:
>
> Hi,
> I just wanted to inform you of a new Slackware mirror site in the UK,
> and ask that it be added to the mirrors section of your website.

Sounds good. You may want to ask for your mirror to be added to this
page also:
<http://www.abnormalpenguin.com/slackware-mirrors.php>

> * FTP: ftp.slackware.org.uk/

Don't mean to worry you, but are Slackware Inc. ok with you using their
name? AIUI, slackware-live was renamed because of such issues.

> * RSYNC: rsync.slackware.org.uk::slackware/

Hurray.


BTW, what's the server's bandwidth?

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On Thu, 5 Feb 2004, Mark Hill (mark_usenet@yahoo.co.uk) wrote:

> Sounds good. You may want to ask for your mirror to be added to this
> page also:
> <http://www.abnormalpenguin.com/slackware-mirrors.php>

Cool. I'll contact them about it.

> > * FTP: ftp.slackware.org.uk/
> Don't mean to worry you, but are Slackware Inc. ok with you using their
> name? AIUI, slackware-live was renamed because of such issues.

Um, I have no idea really. I registered the domain for non-commercial
purposes and to provide Slackware services.. so I can't see it being much of a
problem TBH.

On a completely biased note though, Nominet operate on a
first-come-first-served basis, so unless Slackware is a registered trademark
within the UK, they'd have no claim on the domain.

But that said, I am a supporter of Slackware and have no intention of using
the domain in any "dodgy" way

On a simelar note, I am also quite happy to set up sub-domains for slackware
based projects and (in the future) provide hosting/development facilities.
Drop me a personal email if you're interested.

> > * RSYNC: rsync.slackware.org.uk::slackware/
> Hurray.

Was that a good or bad "Hurray"? Couldn't quite make it out

> BTW, what's the server's bandwidth?

At the moment it's only 2MB/sec, but will shortly be moved to a load balanced
2x 10Mb/sec link, giving a 20Mb/sec link

Obviously, with only 2Mb at the moment, I'd prefer it to be used by people
within the UK only - once the bandwidth is upgraded, i'm not fussed who hits
it

D.

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On Thu, 5 Feb 2004 14:08:14 +0000,
Darren Austin <devnull@slackware.org.uk> wrote:
> On Thu, 5 Feb 2004, Mark Hill (mark_usenet@yahoo.co.uk) wrote:
>
> Um, I have no idea really. I registered the domain for non-commercial
> purposes and to provide Slackware services.. so I can't see it being much of a
> problem TBH.
....
> But that said, I am a supporter of Slackware and have no intention of using
> the domain in any "dodgy" way

Sounds like you'll be fine then. Thinking about it, this is probably
more of an issue with Slackware-spinoff distros than anything else
anyway.

> On a simelar note, I am also quite happy to set up sub-domains for slackware
> based projects and (in the future) provide hosting/development facilities.
> Drop me a personal email if you're interested.

Nice idea. I'm not right now. However, it might be worth mentioning this
and your mirror announcement in the lug.org.uk slackware list as most of
the list is made up of UK slackers. (It's not the most busiest list in
the world though).

>> > * RSYNC: rsync.slackware.org.uk::slackware/
>> Hurray.
>
> Was that a good or bad "Hurray"? Couldn't quite make it out

That should have been "Hurray :-)" . I'm a big fan of rsync. (I
currently use the rsync at ftp.heanet.ie).

[Bandwidth]
> At the moment it's only 2MB/sec, but will shortly be moved to a load balanced
> 2x 10Mb/sec link, giving a 20Mb/sec link

Sounds good.

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Mark Hill wrote:

> On Thu, 5 Feb 2004 14:08:14 +0000,
> Darren Austin <devnull@slackware.org.uk> wrote:
>> On Thu, 5 Feb 2004, Mark Hill (mark_usenet@yahoo.co.uk) wrote:
>>
>> Um, I have no idea really. I registered the domain for non-commercial
>> purposes and to provide Slackware services.. so I can't see it being much
>> of a problem TBH.
> ...
>> But that said, I am a supporter of Slackware and have no intention of
>> using the domain in any "dodgy" way
>
> Sounds like you'll be fine then. Thinking about it, this is probably
> more of an issue with Slackware-spinoff distros than anything else
> anyway.
>
>> On a simelar note, I am also quite happy to set up sub-domains for
>> slackware based projects and (in the future) provide hosting/development
>> facilities. Drop me a personal email if you're interested.
>
> Nice idea. I'm not right now. However, it might be worth mentioning this
> and your mirror announcement in the lug.org.uk slackware list as most of
> the list is made up of UK slackers. (It's not the most busiest list in
> the world though).
>
>>> > * RSYNC: rsync.slackware.org.uk::slackware/
>>> Hurray.
>>
>> Was that a good or bad "Hurray"? Couldn't quite make it out
>
> That should have been "Hurray :-)" . I'm a big fan of rsync. (I
> currently use the rsync at ftp.heanet.ie).
>
> [Bandwidth]
>> At the moment it's only 2MB/sec, but will shortly be moved to a load
>> balanced 2x 10Mb/sec link, giving a 20Mb/sec link
>
> Sounds good.
>

One of my happiest moments was when i found heanet had both a slackware
mirror (for me), a suse update mirror (for my brother), and is a
sourceforge mirror

On Thu, 05 Feb 2004 18:32:27 +0000,
Fred Emmott <pcfreak65@hotmail.com> wrote:
>
> One of my happiest moments was when i found heanet had both a slackware
> mirror (for me), a suse update mirror (for my brother), and is a
> sourceforge mirror

And to top it off, it's nice and fast too.

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Mark Hill wrote:
> On Thu, 05 Feb 2004 18:32:27 +0000,
> Fred Emmott <pcfreak65@hotmail.com> wrote:
>
>>One of my happiest moments was when i found heanet had both a slackware
>>mirror (for me), a suse update mirror (for my brother), and is a
>>sourceforge mirror
>
>
> And to top it off, it's nice and fast too.
>

thx I added it to my swaret.conf file

On Thu, 05 Feb 2004 13:19:29 +0000, Darren Austin wrote:

> I just wanted to inform you of a new Slackware mirror site in the UK

There is no l/arts* package.

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Darren Austin wrote:

> Access is provided by:
> * FTP: ftp.slackware.org.uk/
> * RSYNC: rsync.slackware.org.uk::slackware/
> * HTTP: Unavailable at present, but coming soon
>
> We currently mirror slackware-9.0, 9.1 and current in full and sync on a daily
> basis against ftp.slackware.com. Once we have expanded the disk space a
> little more, a fuller tree will be mirrored.

Nice with an extra mirror.

> We also provide an "unofficial-isos" directory where we build a
> Slackware-current Install and Extra's ISO whenever there is an update to the
> current tree. To our knowledge, there are no mirror sites which provide this
> extra, and we feel it may be worth nothing on the website (if you guys think
> so too )

Hate to tell you, but Lars Strand already does this at
http://www.slackware.no/ and has done so for a year and one day, before
you :-)

Still it is nice to have a 2nd choise.

// Magnus

On Mon, 9 Feb 2004, Magnus Ostergaard (no.email@example.org) wrote:

> Darren Austin wrote:
> > We also provide an "unofficial-isos" directory where we build a
> > Slackware-current Install and Extra's ISO whenever there is an update to the
> > current tree. To our knowledge, there are no mirror sites which provide this
> > extra, and we feel it may be worth nothing on the website (if you guys think
> > so too )

> Hate to tell you, but Lars Strand already does this at
> http://www.slackware.no/ and has done so for a year and one day, before
> you :-)

Hate to tell you, but that ISO has not been rebuilt since Jan 12th - which
might as well be "a year and one day" ago in Slackware development.

> Still it is nice to have a 2nd choise.

Don't you mean, "Still it is nice to have an out of date 2nd choise" ?

It might be worth you checking your facts before posting such a snotty reply
in future. I'd have thought you'd have learnt that from reading this group
for any small length of time.

The unofficial slackware-current ISO's I build are updated *whenever* there is
a sync'd change to the slackware current tree - not once a week, not even over
a month ago, but after every change.

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