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K. Ryabitsev

So, if mirrors.kernel.org went away...
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sahil@toots.sahilister.in

sahilister

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@monsieuricon definitely!

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paulmckrcu

Paul E. McKenney

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@monsieuricon Lots of URLs would break.
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osandov@fosstodon.org

Omar Sandoval

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@monsieuricon I'd miss it, both for the distro mirrors and for @arnd's cross compilers

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boramalper@mastodon.social

Bora M. Alper

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@monsieuricon Why would it go away? Cost of bandwidth, hosting, and/or maintenance?

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landley@mstdn.jp

Rob Landley

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@monsieuricon Bittorrent served a purpose.

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monsieuricon

K. Ryabitsev

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@boramalper it's super expensive to run and the only reason we can afford it is because it was donated by Equinix. E.g. we need 70TB of fast random access storage and terabytes of bandwidth every hour. Times four worldwide frontends.
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boramalper@mastodon.social

Bora M. Alper

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@monsieuricon If it requires "terabytes of bandwidth every hour" then it must be fairly popular, doesn't it? Maybe not critical or irreplaceable, but providing a lot value to lots of users nevertheless?

I'm afraid of sounding too prescriptive but I hope you can find another sponsor for it.

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