Difference between revisions of "Status Update 2006-09"
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| − | We now accept PDF documents (you don't have to put them into an archive anymore) aswell as music and video files in | + | We now accept PDF documents (you don't have to put them into an archive anymore) aswell as music and video files in an Ogg container. The most popular ones being Ogg Vorbis and Ogg Theora. In addition we encourage you to use the open OGG formats rather than the proprietary MP3,MPEG,AVI,QT formats which often come with patent and license issues. |
As we're still getting DMS uploads occasionally: Please note that Aminet does not support DMS. If you need to upload a disk image, convert it to ADF first. We accept both plain ADF files aswell as zipped ADF (.adz). | As we're still getting DMS uploads occasionally: Please note that Aminet does not support DMS. If you need to upload a disk image, convert it to ADF first. We accept both plain ADF files aswell as zipped ADF (.adz). | ||
For an extensive change log head over to: http://wiki.aminet.net/Changelog | For an extensive change log head over to: http://wiki.aminet.net/Changelog | ||
Revision as of 22:50, 3 September 2006
It's been a while since last time, but it doesn't mean we haven't done anything in the meantime. Following is an update on the newest stuff happening over at Aminet.net.
Public wiki
Aminet has its own Wiki now: at http://wiki.aminet.net you'll find manuals, FAQs, information about the team and Aminet's history aswell as our changelogs, todo lists and bug 'database'. The section covering Aminet's usage urgently needs more info added though: if you'd like to help out with creating a nice user manual covering archive formats, the tools required to handle them, various ways of transfering archives from a PC to the Amiga, using an FTP client etc. - get in touch with us, please.
New directories
Several new directories have been created, amongst them misc/os, which is intended for operating systems and updates. The first uploads to this directory are "Amiga Minix", an open source Unix like operating system for Amiga 500, 2000 and 3000 computers and the final m68k-amiga distribution of OpenBSD. The former was kindly provided by Thomas Unger, while the latter is a mirror of ftp.planetmirror.com and was moved to Aminet because OpenBSD-Amiga is discontinued und slowly gets removed from the official BSD-mirrors.
A complete list of the new directories:
- dev/lib (static libraries)
- game/edit (game editors)
- game/strat (strategy games)
- pix/icon (PNG icons)
- misc/os (Operating systems and updates)
We already started to move files into these directories, if you stumble across further packages that should be moved, don't hesitate to tell us. Thanks a lot to James Jacobs for both suggesting game/edit aswell as providing a complete list of files that should be moved in there.
More mirrors
Three new mirrors have been added (de5.aminet.net, se.aminet.net and dk.aminet.net). For more info about mirrors and who to thank for the various ones, see http://wiki.aminet.net/Mirrors. Aminet now consists of seven mirrors - with more coming up. As the question has been brought up several times now: Yes, we do accept big files, a CD ISO shouldn't be a problem. For anything significantly bigger than 80-100 MB we'd appreciate it if you would notify us upfront though.
New filetypes supported
We now accept PDF documents (you don't have to put them into an archive anymore) aswell as music and video files in an Ogg container. The most popular ones being Ogg Vorbis and Ogg Theora. In addition we encourage you to use the open OGG formats rather than the proprietary MP3,MPEG,AVI,QT formats which often come with patent and license issues.
As we're still getting DMS uploads occasionally: Please note that Aminet does not support DMS. If you need to upload a disk image, convert it to ADF first. We accept both plain ADF files aswell as zipped ADF (.adz).
For an extensive change log head over to: http://wiki.aminet.net/Changelog
