Date: Wed, 5 Jan 2005 02:57:31 -0800
From: "Barry K. Nathan" <barryn@pobox.com>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Cc: Horst von Brand <vonbrand@inf.utfsm.cl>, tytso@mit.edu, davidsen@tmr.com,
       bunk@stusta.de, diegocg@teleline.es, willy@w.ods.org,
       wli@holomorphy.com, aebr@win.tue.nl, solt2@dns.toxicfilms.tv,
       linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: starting with 2.7
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On Wed, Jan 05, 2005 at 01:27:09AM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote:
> Horst von Brand <vonbrand@inf.utfsm.cl> wrote:
> >
> > Is there any estimate of the number of daily-straight-from-BK users?
> 
> fwiw, it seems that there were ~1200 downloads of 2.6.10-rc2-mm4 from
> kernel.org.  Almost all via http - only 20 downloads appear in vsftpd.log,
> which seems fishy.  The number of downloads via mirrors is unknown.

The front-page link to the "latest -mm patch" is http. Also, people like
me who use wget and lftp probably prefer to download using http, since
with those clients it ends up working like FTP but without wasting time on
anonymous login (i.e. it happens to be faster).

-Barry K. Nathan <barryn@pobox.com>

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