[Mageia-discuss] New user

[Alejandro López]

On Fri, Sep 9, 2011 at 2:30 PM, Oliver Burger <oliver.bgr at googlemail.com>wrote:

> Am Freitag, 9. September 2011, 14:23:37 schrieb Alejandro López:
> > - Do we need PLF for Mageia?
> No, there is no need for plf. Since Mageia is no company that needs to look
> after the leagl circumstances in countries it wants to sell its product,
> Mageia can provide those packages itself.
> They are in the so called tainted repositories.
>

So I just need to enable these4 repositories. Goooood. Thanks.




> >
> > - Are there plans to have a mirror of the Mageia repositories hosted by
> > free.fr? This would be great.
> That depends on free.fr, not on Mageia.
>

But someone representative could possibly contact them asking if they are
interested... ;-)



> And what is the difference of a mirror by free.fr and a mirror somewhere
> else?
>

That Free is my ISP and I can access those files at high speed as it's their
internal network (no need to leave to the internet).

When updating my old Mandriva installation (Mandriva repositories are
mirrored by Free) I use to reach the bandwidth limit of my connection. When
I moved to Mageia (used the urpmi method) it took me the whole night to
upgrade while with Mandriva it used to take a few hours. Of course I won't
die because of this, but it would be good to have it, not only for me, but
also for a few millons french people.


Alejandro.
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