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Finding Mirrors for the evolt Browser Archive?
MartinB asks: "I help out running evolt.org, and one of the things we provide is a comprehensive
browser archive, with over 100 different browsers, some in multiple platforms and versions, going right back to Mosaic 0.4. This is both a piece of web history, and a resource that lets developers test their sites on browsers which vendors don't offer for download any more. We have an expensive problem - the browser archive chews through 140GB of bandwidth a month and growing, even though we've throttled the FTP server and restricted the maxclients. How do we find people who provide mirrors like these and get browsers.evolt.org spread across lots of hosts?" If you would like to mirror this valuable net resource, please volunteer here (or drop a line to the original submitter)
With lindows they're trying to convince people to migrate from win to linux by changing the os first, and then your apps: I believe that this is the wrong way to do so, at least in most cases.
In my opinion it would be way better to begin with apps, substituting the ones you use most with alternatives available under various OS, so that you also get conscious of the difference between OS and applications, then when you're used to write your letters with, say, OpenOffice instead of MS Office and browsing with Mozilla instead of IE, switching to a different OS can be really painless, be it Linux, MacOSX, or anything else with some decent GUI.
The only problems you can have are with some specific apps for which there aren't linux (MacOSX, etc.) equivalents (but you can use a dual boot machine for those, or have someone install something like wine or vmware on your box) or even worse those legacy dos programs that you absolutely need for your work, but that won't work under any emulator because they use some tricky direct hardware access (but then you're going to have them rewritten anyway, as they won't work on recent version of windows either).