The CANDIS Blog

Well, it has been a struggle, yet it is all over, almost.

For a few days now the FIRST FEDORA MIRROR IN CHINA has been online. Proudly sponsored by CANDIS and urged on by the Beijing Linux Users Group.

There are still some tweaks to happen and more data sets to be added over time, but the “Releases” is a good start. And it would not be possible without the great help from Matt Domsch and the Fedora Mirrors List.

http://fedora.candishosting.com.cn

I knew the config files were different between 7.4 and 8.1 and that some items merely changed names and some were deprecated.

I used this excellent resource before.

Even the very rudimentary tweaks I did, and with a RAID array that is in a 90% rebuild rate, background initialisation, this 8.1 version is FAST! I have no idea why people use MySQL, it really is such a piece of crud.