One point to be taken into account. People who use CentOS in the developing countries have very slow and unreliable internet connections and leaves the only option to download the CDs, test them and download the bad ones again if errors found. with DVDs it's a lot more difficult, some would have to wait a lot more than 1 day for a DVD to be downloaded, and very unlikely to have a good clean image at that point. When a person has been able to successfully download the whole distribution, it will be copied distributed in the white market (no black market for linux), and this can't make it to the stats. Well, we know torrents are good solution, but bear the above in mind as well. Julio --- On Mon, 13/6/11, Paul Stewart <pstewart at nexicomgroup.net> wrote: > From: Paul Stewart <pstewart at nexicomgroup.net> > Subject: Re: [CentOS-mirror] CentOS-6 CDs decision needs some stats > To: "Mailing list for CentOS mirrors." <centos-mirror at centos.org> > Date: Monday, 13 June, 2011, 14:20 > Thanks for that - redid the stats and > got this for past 30 days: > > 2957 > /5.6/isos/x86_64/CentOS-5.6-x86_64-bin-DVD-1of2.iso > 1052 > /5.6/isos/x86_64/CentOS-5.6-x86_64-bin-DVD-2of2.iso > 213 > /5.4/isos/i386/CentOS-5.4-i386-bin-DVD.iso > 175 > /5.6/isos/i386/CentOS-5.6-i386-LiveCD.iso > 123 > /5.6/isos/i386/CentOS-5.6-i386-bin-DVD.iso > 35 > /5.6/isos/i386/CentOS-5.6-i386-netinstall.iso > 33 > /5.6/isos/i386/CentOS-5.6-i386-bin-1of7.iso > 32 > /5.6/isos/i386/CentOS-5.6-i386-bin-2of7.iso > 31 > /5.6/isos/x86_64/CentOS-5.6-x86_64-bin-1of8.iso > 31 > /5.6/isos/i386/CentOS-5.6-i386-bin-7of7.iso > 31 > /5.6/isos/i386/CentOS-5.6-i386-bin-6of7.iso > 31 > /5.6/isos/i386/CentOS-5.6-i386-bin-5of7.iso > 31 > /5.6/isos/i386/CentOS-5.6-i386-bin-4of7.iso > 31 > /5.6/isos/i386/CentOS-5.6-i386-bin-3of7.iso > 30 > /5.6/isos/x86_64/CentOS-5.6-x86_64-netinstall.iso > 30 > /5.6/isos/x86_64/CentOS-5.6-x86_64-bin-5of8.iso > 30 > /5.6/isos/x86_64/CentOS-5.6-x86_64-bin-2of8.iso > 29 > /5.6/isos/x86_64/CentOS-5.6-x86_64-bin-3of8.iso > 28 > /5.6/isos/x86_64/CentOS-5.6-x86_64-bin-8of8.iso > 28 > /5.6/isos/x86_64/CentOS-5.6-x86_64-bin-7of8.iso > 28 > /5.6/isos/x86_64/CentOS-5.6-x86_64-bin-6of8.iso > 28 > /5.6/isos/x86_64/CentOS-5.6-x86_64-bin-4of8.iso > 22 > /5.3/isos/i386/CentOS-5.3-i386-bin-DVD.iso > 8 > /5.4/isos/x86_64/CentOS-5.4-x86_64-bin-DVD.iso > 7 > /5.5/isos/i386/CentOS-5.5-i386-bin-DVD.iso > 5 > /5.6/isos/x86_64/CentOS-5.6-x86_64-LiveCD.iso > 5 > /5.5/isos/x86_64/CentOS-5.5-x86_64-bin-DVD-2of2.iso > 5 > /5.3/isos/x86_64/CentOS-5.3-x86_64-bin-DVD.iso > 3 > /5/isos/x86_64/CentOS-5.6-x86_64-bin-DVD-1of2.iso > 2 > /5/isos/i386/CentOS-5.6-i386-LiveCD.iso > 2 > /5.5/isos/x86_64/CentOS-5.5-x86_64-bin-DVD-1of2.iso > 1 > /5/isos/x86_64/CentOS-5.6-x86_64-bin-DVD-2of2.iso > 1 > /5/isos/i386/CentOS-5.6-i386-bin-DVD.iso > > 88 > /4.8/isos/i386/CentOS-4.8-i386-binDVD.iso > 45 > /4/isos/i386/CentOS-4.8-i386-binDVD.iso > 40 > /4.9/isos/i386/CentOS-4.8-i386-binDVD.iso > 28 > /4.8/isos/x86_64/CentOS-4.8-x86_64-binDVD.iso > 28 > /4.8/isos/x86_64/CentOS-4.8-x86_64-bin5of5.iso > 28 > /4.8/isos/x86_64/CentOS-4.8-x86_64-bin4of5.iso > 28 > /4.8/isos/x86_64/CentOS-4.8-x86_64-bin3of5.iso > 28 > /4.8/isos/x86_64/CentOS-4.8-x86_64-bin2of5.iso > 28 > /4.8/isos/x86_64/CentOS-4.8-x86_64-bin1of5.iso > 28 > /4.8/isos/i386/CentOS-4.8-i386-bin4of4.iso > 28 > /4.8/isos/i386/CentOS-4.8-i386-bin3of4.iso > 28 > /4.8/isos/i386/CentOS-4.8-i386-bin2of4.iso > 28 > /4.8/isos/i386/CentOS-4.8-i386-bin1of4.iso > 28 > /4.8/isos/alpha/centos-4.3-alpha-disc4.iso > 28 > /4.8/isos/alpha/centos-4.3-alpha-disc3.iso > 28 > /4.8/isos/alpha/centos-4.3-alpha-disc2.iso > 28 > /4.8/isos/alpha/centos-4.3-alpha-disc1.iso > 2 > /4.9/isos/x86_64/CentOS-4.8-x86_64-binDVD.iso > 1 > /4/isos/x86_64/CentOS-4.8-x86_64-binDVD.iso > 1 > /4.9/isos/x86_64/CentOS-4.8-x86_64-bin5of5.iso > 1 > /4.9/isos/x86_64/CentOS-4.8-x86_64-bin4of5.iso > 1 > /4.9/isos/x86_64/CentOS-4.8-x86_64-bin3of5.iso > 1 > /4.9/isos/i386/CentOS-4.8-i386-bin3of4.iso > > -----Original Message----- > From: centos-mirror-bounces at centos.org > [mailto:centos-mirror-bounces at centos.org] > On Behalf Of Kevin Stange > Sent: Friday, June 10, 2011 8:25 PM > To: centos-mirror at centos.org > Subject: Re: [CentOS-mirror] CentOS-6 CDs decision needs > some stats > > On 06/10/2011 04:08 AM, Karanbir Singh wrote: > > hi guys, > > > > For CentOS-6 we are thinking of dropping the CD isos > from the main > > distro. So there will only be an os/ and isos/ will > have the DVD and > > netinstall CD only. > > > > However, in order to make that decision we would love > to get some > > stats from mirror operators about download frequency > of CD isos and DVD isos. > > Would it be possible to get something like that ? Just > numbers posted > > to this list are fine. If we can get them split for > CentOS-4 and > > CentOS-5, even better. > > At Karanbir's request, I am posting the command I used to > generate my stats, however inelegant it may be. You > need to modify the log file path (and perhaps switch to cat > instead of zcat if your logs aren't compressed). Also, > replace the 5 with a 4 to get CentOS 4 results. > > zcat /var/log/httpd/mirror.steadfast.net.access_log.*.gz | > grep -ve '\(404\|206\)' | awk '{ print $7 }' | grep > '/centos/5.*\.iso$' | sort | uniq -c | sort -rn > > -- > Kevin Stange > Chief Technology Officer > Steadfast Networks > http://steadfast.net > Phone: 312-602-2689 ext. 203 | Fax: 312-602-2688 | Cell: > 312-320-5867 > > _______________________________________________ > CentOS-mirror mailing list > CentOS-mirror at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos-mirror >