One hundred thousand downloads of the Omarchy ISO in the past week! One hundred thousand people who decided that this was the week they’d finally try Linux (or come back to it). What a bunch of bosses!
In terms of bandwidth, we flung nearly one petabyte in those same seven days. A thousand terabytes of Linux in a week between ISOs and package updates!
This would surely have taken Omarchy down in another age. Sent us scrambling for mirrors or torrents (and thinking about needing another mortgage on the house to pay the hosting bill). But we didn’t need to.
That’s because Cloudflare sits in front of all of it: the ISOs, the Omarchy packages, and our Arch mirror. It’s all on R2 and behind their CDN. Neither of which of course ever broke a sweat. And that’s the reason a hundred thousand people had a fast, boring, uneventful download from anywhere in the world in the past week.
Thank you to everyone at Cloudflare, and to Matthew Prince in particular. Matthew is also one of the Founding Patrons, which means he’s backing this project with both the infrastructure and his own money. Muchas gracias, señor!
A hundred thousand ISOs in a week. Wow.