[Mageia-discuss] New user

[Donald Stewart]

2011/9/9 Alejandro López <listas.apl at gmail.com>:
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> On Fri, Sep 9, 2011 at 2:30 PM, Oliver Burger <oliver.bgr at googlemail.com>
> wrote:
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>> 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.
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> So I just need to enable these4 repositories. Goooood. Thanks.
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>> > - 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.
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> But someone representative could possibly contact them asking if they are
> interested... ;-)
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>> And what is the difference of a mirror by free.fr and a mirror somewhere
>> else?
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> 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).
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> 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.
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> Alejandro.

Which mirror did you use for the upgrade?