[plug] Mandriva Mandrake which release

[Richard Meyer]

On Wed, 2005-10-19 at 11:36 +0800, Leon Brooks wrote:
> On Wednesday 19 October 2005 11:24, Richard Meyer wrote:
> > How up-to-date is pacific.net for Mandriva? I'm asking because it
> > appears to be a few releases behind for SUSE. Also - is Pacific.net
> > on WAIX?
> 
> Pacific seems to lack the _older_distros rathe rthan the newer, and the 
> are on WAIX.
> 
> I can also assure you that within 24 hours of getting hold of someone 
> who will let me do it for free, there will be a WAIX-enabled 
> web/FTP/rsync server for the whole shebang, plus PLF and mondo other 
> stuff, mostly not Mandriva related.
> 
> 3FL (http://mirror.wa.3fl.net/) do a good thing and I often use them for 
> stuff like TheOpenCD, but it's too manual and spotty to rely on for a 
> commercial enterprises. Pacfici were until recently short of disk space 
> due to hardware issues with their mirror's new SANS, but seem to have 
> overcome that now. PlanetMirror are mostly excellent, but not on WAIX.

Yep, I have to work through planetmirror for security updates on SUSE
9.3 - might try pacific, now that I've upgraded to 10.0

It's very irritating when you get a warning saying "Update your OS,
Security fixes found", and then go to the mirror which downloads a fix,
and afterwards, the warning comes back again.
> 
> Cheers; Leon

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