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Let me share some numbers for the openSUSE 11.0 release. Do you remember the 10.3 release? Again we used akamai for distribution of the images. Again for 30 hours, and yes, we made more than 100TB this time!
Total data transfered: 163 TB!!!
That’s without considering any other mirrors, just images downloaded directly from software.opensuse.org.
Some more details:
62% openSUSE-11.0-DVD-i386.iso
28% openSUSE-11.0-DVD-x86_64.iso
3,7% openSUSE-11.0-KDE4-LiveCD-i386.iso
2,0% openSUSE-11.0-GNOME-LiveCD-i386.iso
1,2% openSUSE-11.0-KDE4-LiveCD-x86_64.iso
1,1% openSUSE-11.0-Addon-Lang-i386.iso
below 1%:
openSUSE-11.0-DVD-ppc.iso
openSUSE-11.0-GNOME-LiveCD-x86_64.iso
openSUSE-11.0-Addon-Lang-x86_64.iso
openSUSE-11.0-Addon-Lang-ppc.iso
So what are the changes compared to the last release?
- more people downloaded the 64bit DVD (+4%)
- 63% more downloads in the first 30 hours
- approx. 65.000 registered installations so far, for 10.3 we had 40.000 after 6 days
For the next release we should break the 200TB mark 
I download it before it was released……
uhh..
The numbers may be false. There were a lot of requests on the aachen-server for parts of germany and the server did not work.
So I had to downloaded it over torrent, too. ^^
Are the torrents included in this stastic?
no, these are just direct downloads, maybe i can find some torrent numbers …
I run a torrent site for seeding openSUSE alpha/beta/release DVD images. Here are the numbers for 11.0 release until today:
i386 - 113
x86_64 - 168
ppc - 107
Numbers are for complete DVDs.
62%… of downloads or of size? You know, DVDs are bigger
I installed three times (workPC, homePC and home laptop) but downloaded once, so i think the usage is lot more bigger than just about 40 000, anyway Suse rulez.
Also i think the kde4 has it’s own affect too.
WOW!
Install using my local mirror - Internode (Australian ISP that provides unmetered - free - Linux downloads for a good selection of distros). Installs such as these my never show up in any stats.
I would like to add that Ubuntu 8.04 has a nice feature that lists a lot of servers/mirrors, including Internode, and by selecting it all the repos were setup to point to it. The easiest and best repo setup feature I have ever used to-date and I hope openSUSE developers can emulate it in the 11.1 version.
Cheers
openSUSE already does something like that: when you download things from download.opensuse.org (images, repositories, …), you are automatically redirected to a mirror that is closer to you, seamlessly — although you can also add specific mirrors, this way is better because it automatically filters servers when they’re down, etc.
I am not certain Suse used to have mirrors listed somewhere,I need a dvd for the local network installed and I am on the 5th day, looking into get it finished tomorrow, on the on going process to trying to get it from the torrent. this is been the longest download time for any distro, I will be very appreciated if Suse publishs the mirrors.
Did you try looking for a mirror, or was your default reaction to complain? In 2 seconds of searching, I found the mirror list:
http://en.opensuse.org/Mirrors_Released_Version
Downloaded DVD via Bittorrent. 26 hours !!!!!!!
Where am I going wrong ?
I tried the dvd torrent at home, i got after a few minutes over 1MB/s. There are enough seeders with good bandwith.
Wow, sounds good! I really love SUSE since v.7.0! Tried to konfig KDE 4.0.4 now on v. 11.0 but got back after one week to the good old (stable) KDE 3.5.9
Awesome, OpenSuse 11 rocks
FANTASTIC! I love OpenSuSE!
Opensuse 11.0 is really awesome. I use it with KDE 4.1 and it’s already quite stable. Should have been included in the official release instead of 4.0.4. When I read about all the backporting of kdepim, plasma and other features. If all this effort would have been spent on stabilizing 4.1 beta it might already be in RC quality. Of course, I’m exaggerating but it looks like a tremendous effort from the suse folks to deliver a usable KDE 4.0.4 and in one month it’s going to be for naught because 4.1 is out which will have even more features but again a few ones didn’t make the cut because of limited resources (e.g. proxy support).
60000 guys installed openSUSE, yay? I would be happy if it wasn’t for the fact this is so dangerous for Linux and FOSS, please, if sane openSUSE devs are listeneing, FORK it away from Novell, do it quick.
Just say no to FUD
http://enigma.dune.net/~eric/Do-not-feed-the-troll.PNG
Opensuse 11.0 Rules! I have downloaded it from torret. I installed on my new Laptop Lenovo T61P and EVERYTHING works fine with Gnome environment. I guess that KDE 4 need more time to be a good and STABLE desk environment. Good Job!
Opensuse 11.0 x86_64 is working great on MacBook4.
too bad you can’t count Net Installs, because my laptop doesn’t have a DVD player and it takes me long enough to download the 2GB of applications, let alone an entire DVD of applications I want *and* applications I don’t!
hi, ppl
one more comment. I download one copy of oS 11×386 but install it on 2 pc’s and will install it on 2 more, Some my friends still like opensuse 10.x
Anyone know when openSuse 11 will be on final build? Its in Beta at the moment and I’m not the greatest Linux user, so I’d rather wait until the final build before giving it a go. Anyone know when this will be?