On Saturday 02 December 2006 20:40, Anthony Bryan wrote:
p2p is great for this, but we have to remember that p2p isn't available to everyone. It's blocked by some universities, businesses, and ISPs. Besides regular p2p/bittorrent, you can continue using Metalink to spread out the downloads between mirrors, either removing the listing for the main server or lowering its priority rating. Metalinks can list mirrors, along with torrents, ed2k, and magnet links. People can then download from local servers if they set their location, since the mirrors have location and priority information.
<url type="ftp" location="jp" preference="10">
ftp://ftp.jaist.ac.jp/pub/Linux/openSUSE/distribution/openSUSE-10.2-RC1/iso /openSUSE-10.2-RC1-i386-CD1.iso </url> <url type="http" location="jp" preference="10">
http://ftp.kddilabs.jp/Linux/packages/opensuse/distribution/openSUSE-10.2-R C1/iso/openSUSE-10.2-RC1-i386-CD1.iso </url>
The Metalinks for RC1 are available at http://download.packages.ro/metalink/opensuse/ . Ones for the final release will be automatically generated once the ISOs are synced to the mirrors.
That seems like a very nice idea; I investigated by downloading a few ISOs and they maxed out my connection (24mbit, but still). Are there any plans to advertise these metalinks specifically, at all? I guess part of the problem would be that people really don't know about the procedure or applications (despite being so easy to use), unlike torrents. Still, looks like something very good to explore. I've only been here for two previous releases, but the site was down both times and things weren't going so well at all. We get many new users in the channels asking questions, and while we'd like to give them the links to the very easy howtos on the wiki, it's not available :/. Try to improvise with Google cache, most of the time. Not ideal though. Regards, Francis. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-project+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-project+help@opensuse.org