I'm not happy with the new Arch changes

Hi all,
Besides the KISS principle that Arch adheres to, what kept me with Arch for the first couple of weeks was the speed of updates (1.5MB/s for North America) from ftp.archlinux.org. I used to be able to install a full KDE system from the network in under 30 minutes. I have been an avid Arch user and advocate for at least a year now.
Then came the slowing down of my updates because of bandwidth throtteling on ftp.archlinux.org and having to change to a different mirror.
Now comes the announcement of moving to a kernel-based ISO release. This means more space needed on the mirrors and slower repos because of people downloading these new ISOs every time a new one is released.
As much as I love Arch and it's community I don't like the new direction Arch is taking.
Last edited by raymano (2007-04-03 13:46:36)

I actually think it all makes alot of sense myself.....    New iso matches new kernel .... that's pretty freakin simple   The install iso's are just snapshots of the system at a point in time anyway..... at least now it's not a totally arbitrary point. 
As for the mirror system, I like that alot now too, took me a while to rework my private mirror to the available rsyncable mirrors, but with Dale's help, it's working like a champ   This makes sense too...... the archlinux.org mirror was being overrun as more members signed on and started running arch.... so "something" had to be done obviously. 
However, DTW "It is not the job of the Arch team to babysit or account for the minority of idiots who mis-use/mis-understand the distro and its facilities. " ...... please don't forget that archlinux.org was/is set as the default repo for pacman in ALL new installs (even the most current iso, i checked)  ....... seems like that might need to be changed in the next iso release.  It was last time I looked, also the default server to mirror in the ArchLinux wiki tutorial on setting up mirrors......  so, the dev's shouldn't be to taken aback by some frustration on the part of normal users when this comes up. I guess I'm saying, no one's perfect, and the whole throttling down archlinux.org and shutting off rsync mirrors could have been handled a little better, but hindsight is 20/20.  As more than one person stated in the other forum thread +1 ftp.archlinux.org should not be default (for pacman) if its usage is discouraged ......... kinda makes sense to me.......
raymano, anyone running a mirror isn't going to be bothered with downloading a gig or so of iso's when they come out, it won't be that big of a deal. If they are bothered by it, they can block the iso's from rsyncing and not mirror the iso files.

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