[Mageia-dev] Mirror layout

Sat Dec 11 15:40:05 CET 2010

On Sat, Dec 11, 2010 at 08:16:33AM -0500, andre999 wrote:
+ 
+> >Not to mention that a ratio of 2 mirrors in the USA out of a total
+> >of 25 seems rather odd, for something that admins do not care.
+> 
+> 2 of 25 PLF mirrors in the U.S.
+
+Technically, 1, since the other is down ( and should be removed from
+the list ).
+So a ratio of 4%.
+
+> 16 of 133 Mandriva mirrors in the U.S.
+
+A ratio of 12%.
+
+Same as debian, based 49 mirrors in the US out of 358.
+( ie 13% ), based on http://www.debian.org/mirror/list
+
+Ubuntu has 12 out of 62 for isos, ie 16%.
+http://www.ubuntu.com/getubuntu/downloadmirrors
+
+And for packages, that 51 out of 367, ie 13%
+https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+archivemirrors
+
+Opensuse has 22 out of  155, aka 14%.
+( http://mirrors.opensuse.org/ ).
+
+Fedora has 59 us mirrors out of 259, ie 22%.
+( http://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/publiclist/ ).
+
+So basically, between Fedora, with a strict policy, and PLF, the 
+difference is 18%. 
+
+And I didn't count other country such as Japan, where patents on software
+are permitted ( http://en.swpat.org/wiki/Japan ), and where the count of PLF
+mirrors vs Fedora mirrors is 0 to 8.
+
+More ever, the fact that this is hosted by some private and rather anonymous 
+company is also a important point. Ie, no .edu or big telco ever contacted 
+PLF to host a mirror, while in France and another country, PLF have both.
+
+
+> Also, there are only about 400 packages for i586 in PLF mirrors.
+> Since most are duplicated, I wonder how many distinct packages there are ?
+> Somehow doubt that an unlicenced copy of quotes from the Simpsons
+> (one of the 2 plf packages that I didn't find also in Mandriva main)
+> is going to be a big attraction.
+
+You should look a little bit more closely. For example, libdvdcss2 is plf only.
+So does various emulator, lame ( and related like darkice ), gstreamer-bad,
+etc. There is amule, and similar software. More than 2.
+
+I am sure that using a small shell script, the exact number could be found, if 
+someone want to invest the time.
+
+-- 
+Michael Scherer
+