Hi,

I have been using PCLOS for a while now. Mostly because the international download speeds are too slow and unreliable to use a distro that doesn't have repos in Thailand. From http://mirror.in.th/ it appears that our other options are Fedora, CentOS, Debian, and Eclipse? There are others listed, but they don't appear to have been updated in quite some time. I would like to move on to a distro that supports and x86 64 bit machine, which PCLOS doesn't (well, not completely anyway). What distro do you use, and does it have a repo here in LOS?

a distro that doesn't have repos in Thailand

What about that ?

Thailand : http://mirror.pclinuxclub.com/pclinuxos/apt/

Japan : http://ftp.jaist.ac.jp/pub/Linux/PCLinuxOS/apt/

Taiwan : http://ftp.tcc.edu.tw/Linux/PCLinuxOS/apt/

For Ubuntu, the fastest download I can get is SG or HK, sometimes Taipe but not Thailand.

What about that ?

Thailand : http://mirror.pclinuxclub.com/pclinuxos/apt/

Japan : http://ftp.jaist.ac.jp/pub/Linux/PCLinuxOS/apt/

Taiwan : http://ftp.tcc.edu.tw/Linux/PCLinuxOS/apt/

For Ubuntu, the fastest download I can get is SG or HK, sometimes Taipe but not Thailand.

For PCLOS I get 200/sec all the time. I was hoping there were other distros that had local repos too. There are a few at the Thai national mirror, but most are not kept up to date. Debian looks like a possibility. Fedora also. I thought SUSE had something going here in Thailand, but I haven't found a URL yet that confims local (therefore fast) repos. I would actually prefer Ubuntu - so SG is ok huh? I may try it out.

I think my issue may be partly a CAT telecom issue. If I have done any p2p in the previous weeks, the connection gets very slow with regular stops/timeouts. Not sure if anyone else experiences this. But it makes updating or getting software from apt/yum/yast/whichever almost impossible. Unless the download originates in country, then they don't throttle me at all.

edit:

a distro that doesn't have repos in Thailand

I don't think you got what I meant there. Meant that if a distro doesn't have Thai repos, it is very difficult for me to use .

Thai Ubuntu repositories are not too bad, at least they improved a lot lately. In the past, after each new release of the OS you had to wait few weeks to get the latest packages (postfix etc), or had to fetch them in Australia.

If you want to use Ubuntu, you can run the 'Software Sources' app (in the System/Administration menu) and ask it to ping all repos available in the world. It will then select the fastest one for you.

Thai Ubuntu repositories are not too bad, at least they improved a lot lately. In the past, after each new release of the OS you had to wait few weeks to get the latest packages (postfix etc), or had to fetch them in Australia.

If you want to use Ubuntu, you can run the 'Software Sources' app (in the System/Administration menu) and ask it to ping all repos available in the world. It will then select the fastest one for you.

I tried Kubuntu for most of the day today. Their didn't impress me. I am making this post from my new Debian install. The Thai support for Deb is excellent. I got to try out the net-install, which is slick, you don't have to update at all once it's done. But as far as I can tell, PCLOS and Debian have the best local repos.

Cheers,

eric

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Trying to find a Linux distro that has good, fast Thailand repos. So far, I only know of two good ones: PCLOS and Debian.

Fedora? I'm doing 200 to 400 kb downloads, when update my Fedora 9 installation....

Gentoo also mirrored here in Thailand.

I found this mirror recently:

http://www.mirror1.ku.ac.th/index.php?lang=eng