I am pleased to announce that after a period of mutually successful negotiation with the CEO of OSDN, Linux Lite has moved our ISO download mirrors from Sourceforge to OSDN. I just tested a download and got over 55mb/sec on my Fiber connection.
https://osdn.net/projects/linuxlite/I was approached by them in an email and initially thought, this is just another hosting company looking for some familiar names to bolster their site, but there was more to it.
They have a unique revenue sharing approach that rewards developers based on how many downloads they get. There is no cap, so the sky is the limit. Initially, the cap was too high and out of reach, even for a project like ours. I made a case for this, and the CEO who seems very reasonable, adjusted their scale accordingly. We now have in place, a fair and equitable revenue sharing scale.
This is huge news for both parties involved and for our respective communities and will get us a step closer to working on this project full time which has been my dream since the start.
As far as I can tell the:
PROS:
- Worldwide, extremely fast mirrors.
- Other big Projects like Android-x86, Clonezilla and Manjaro have moved to OSDN.
- Equitable revenue sharing based on number of downloads per month.
CONS:
- Moving to a smaller, lesser known company is a risk.
The Sourceforge links will remain as there is no way to predict the future, and in all fairness they have been good to us and we have a long history going back to hosting our very first release with them. I know the anit-SF people will feel vindicated and happy now that we're off SF, but to be fair, nothing they did hurt us, it was the software creators that had adware added to their installers, our ISO's remained untouched.
Jerry
