[nflug] UB FTP Mirror Site...

[robert_todd at adelphia.net]

Ken, et al.

I just wanted to point out that the Aurora Linux group has come out with Auora Linux 2.0 beta 2 which is based on the next to recent Fedora Core build.  With one catch -- this "port" of "Fedora" is for Sun Sparc-based computers (such as the Ultra 5 that I run at home)

Just thought I would post this to let everyone know in case of any interest.  For more information on the Aurora Linux project, visit http://www.auroralinux.org

Thanks for you time!
Robert

---- Ken Smith <kensmith at cse.Buffalo.EDU> wrote: 
> 
> Looks like there seems to be a bit of discussion being generated about
> the UB FTP Mirror Site so I guess it's time for me to subscribe to the
> list and get Jason out of the middle...  :-)
> 
> First sorry for the older RedHat Releases being dropped from the site.
> RedHat changed the layout of their primary mirror site, moving all of
> the older (pre-Fedora Core) releases to a different rsync module and
> when it happened I didn't have the time to make the adjustments.  RedHat
> has for a while now been focused on their RHEL product and not the
> earlier freely available distributions (which have been "replaced" by
> the Fedora Core releases as I'm fairly sure you know...).
> 
> I have replaced what we used to have as far as the older releases went
> from the new rsync module RedHat provides.  They are at:
> 
>   ftp://ftp.cse.buffalo.edu/pub/redhat-archive/
> 
> Now the bad news - the message Jason had forwarded me was asking about
> RedHat 7.2.  Even before RedHat restructured things I wasn't still
> carrying that.  I only had the most recent minor version number for each
> of the major version numbers.  In the case of RedHat 7.X that meant I
> had RedHat 7.3, not RedHat 7.2.  Sorry but we don't have the disk space
> available to carry *everything* (as much as I'd like to...).  If you
> have not been able to get RedHat 7.2 yet I can arrange to download it
> temporarily for you but I can't keep it around forever.  Let me know if
> you need me to do that.
> 
> Jason also forwarded a message suggesting we carry Fedora.  We have been
> carrying that ever since it got started:
> 
>   ftp://ftp.cse.buffalo.edu/pub/fedora/
> 
> And while I'm here...  Another message Jason had forwarded questioned us
> removing stuff.  As much as I'd like to keep stuff forever we simply
> can't - disk space costs money and is finite.  As for example Fedora
> comes out with a new release I'm often faced with deciding what thing(s)
> I need to remove because the new release simply won't fit in the amount
> of disk space I have left over at the time and I can't afford to go buy
> more.  So it's something of a natural process for older and less useful
> stuff to simply need to go away.  In this case I had not intended for it
> to happen and I've replaced what was lost but at some point I'm afraid
> some of this older stuff will need to go away in favor of newer stuff.
> 
> Hopefully I'm on the list now and can see any more traffic about this
> topic (and Jason won't need to be in the middle... :-).
> 
> -- 
>                                                 Ken Smith
> - From there to here, from here to      |       kensmith at cse.buffalo.edu
>   there, funny things are everywhere.   |
>                       - Theodore Geisel |
> 

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