Re: [libreoffice-marketing] Has anyone used RapidShare for sharing ISO files?

To get the ISO files onto the LibreOffice servers, I would have to have 
a FTP account, since that is the only way I know of that I can upload 
such a large file anywhere.  I do not think "they" will offer me one, 
even to a 1-folder account made for that purpose only.

As for your "unlimited" statement, well I have unlimited 
bandwidth/traffic and 100 GB of file storage on my hosting account.  The 
problem is no hosting, or file sharing, account I can find will allow 
the uploading of a DVD size file.  I have tried Rapidshare and others 
like it, but no one will allow such a large file size to be uploaded 
onto their servers.

I agree with you.  We need to get the ISOs online for people to download 
and burn for their own use.  The LibreOfficebox.org site has a CMS 
system and our 3.3.3 Windows-Linux-Mac pages are being 
re-created/re-edited to fit their system.  Then, so I have been told, 
that system will "automatically" create an ISO file which will be 
accessible for download.  That will be done in mid-August, hopefully.  
That site has different formatting constraints so the pages on that 
system and its generated ISOs will look a little different but will have 
the same information.

It would be nice to have a place for others to "show off" their version 
of a distribution DVD, without needing to create them with the CMS 
system, but right now I do not know of a place who will host these .iso 
files.  Right now I have 4 DVDs ready for uploading their .iso files for 
sharing.  Hopefully be late August, a version of these DVDs will be 
found through the CMS system LibreOffice has at the LibreOfficebox.org 
project.

But it would be wonderful to have the DVDs that the North American 
Community DVD project has created outside of the CMS system.  We have 
done a lot of hours of work on them.  They are "finished" except for the 
updating of the files as they become available.  The DVD was started 
just before 3.3.1 came out.  The the 4 main French dictionaries have 
been updated twice since then, along with some of the German and 
others.  The documentation page has been updated every time I see 
another .odt/.pdf "book" has become available.  When the 3.4.x line came 
out, it was added as a separate set of DVDs [Windows-Linux-Mac, and 
Windows-only].  We are working on Spanish and French translation of the 
DVDs, but it look like they will not be finished for a bit and will be 
offered off of the CMS system, and not the LibreOffice-NA-US 
<http://libreoffice-na.us/> testing portal site that I host on my 
hosting provider account.

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If you want to see what files are in the ISO file of one of our DVDs, go 
to http://libreoffice-na.us/ and look at the 3.3.x and the 3.4.x 
options.  The links in their pages shows what is in the DVDs, since that 
testing portal is the online version of the DVD[s] with all the same 
files and folders.  The Wiki for the DVD is not up-to-date.

For those who need the complete file list of one of our current DVDs, as 
Simos asked for, here is a link to a PDF file with the "dir/s" "piped" 
listing of the contents of the 3.3.3 Windows-Linux-Mac DVD that is shown 
in the pages at http://libreoffice-na.us/English/index.html

http://libreoffice-na.us/dvd__3.3.3__file-list.pdf

It is 33 landscape pages.  The DOS listing has issues with some of the 
characters in the Spanish dictionary listings.  If it is not shown on 
the US English keyboard, the DOS dir command uses a special "?" 
character as a replacement.  There are 1024 files and folders [according 
to the properties command].

I have listed the dictionary section .oxt files with the date[s] of the 
internal .dic file[s] or other file that is the information used by 
LibreOffice to do the spell checking and other work.  For the 4 main 
French dictionaries, the .dic files are dated; version 4.0 - 2010-08-01, 
version 4.1 - 2011-03-27, and version 4.2 - 2011-07-04 for the last 
update.  Some .dic files in the dictionary list are as old as 2003, 
while most seem to be 2008 or newer.

Let me know if there is something you need to know about that file list.

Simos - if you wish to discuss something off the list you can use the 
following email addresses;
webmaster@krackedpress.com
         the email used for this list [my Kracked Press Productions is a
         closed for business since I had to "retire" after a stroke]

webmaster@libreoffice-na.us
         the webmaster email for the testing portal.


On 07/12/2011 03:56 AM, Simos Xenitellis wrote:
> On Sat, Jul 9, 2011 at 9:40 PM, webmaster for Kracked Press
> Productions<webmaster@krackedpress.com>  wrote:
> > Has anyone used RapidShare for sharing ISO files?
> >
> > I was thinking that seems the only place that may allow these large files to
> > have a home for sharing.
> >
> > I want to have a place that could be a home for the LibreOffice DVD ISO
> > files so they can be shared with others who can download and burn DVDs.
> If you can get the files on the LibreOffice distribution servers, then
> they are automatically replicated
> around the world to the different LibreOffice mirrors.
> I think this would be the straightforward solution.
>
> One thing you can do is provide a list of the files in the ISO, along
> with filesize.
> I am interested to see what exactly is inside the ISOs.
> If you already created a Wiki page for this, please direct me to it.
>
> > My hosting company will not allow files larger than 700+ MB and the two DVD
> > versions [3.3.3 and 3.4.1] of LibreOffice are over 3.4 GB in size.  The
> > account has not issues of having 100 GB of executable files online but if I
> > have any ISO files, then they say that I am a repository and it is not
> > allowed.
> >
> > My email account[s] is limited to under 500 MB file size even though I have
> > one that has a 1 GB inbox/outbox size.  So I have problems with getting
> > these files to anyone.
> >
> > Does anyone have any suggestions on low-cost or free places to share these
> > LibreOffice ISO files?
> Several web hosting providers offer 'unlimited bandwidth'. You can get
> people to offer
> part of this unlimited bandwidth (my webhosting offers me 'unlimited',
> which I would love
> to put it to use).
>
> I am new to this DVD ISO discussion and I do not know the details
> (what is included in the ISO,
> individual file sizes, etc), so please give as much details as possible.
> If we can position this ISO as the official distribution files for offline use,
> then it's easy to get the on the libreoffice download servers, and
> then they are mirrored for free around the world.
>
> Simos


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