Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-factory (1233 mails)

[Peter Poeml <poeml@xxxxxxx>]

On Fri, Nov 07, 2008 at 08:04:09PM +0100, manchette wrote:
> hello,
> how do we choose between MirrorBrain and aria2c ?
> Which one is better ?
> Thanks ;-)

Sorry, I seem to have introduced some confusion here.
MirrorBrain is the name I gave the infrastructure that openSUSE uses.
It runs at the server side (download.opensuse.org). It consists of a
mirror database, mirror monitoring framework, a redirecting webserver
and metalink generator. Plus a human admin.
http://mirrorbrain.org/ has more info about the project.

aria2c is one of the clients that can be used to download stuff from the
server. Both aria2c and MirrorBrain have some special capabilities. The
server does sort of a knowledge transfer to the client, and the client
can work autonomously from there. Transparent negotiation makes this
invisible to the user and avoids the need for special links crafted for
the special client.

So the two are working together. I'd venture to claim that they are
"both better" ;)

Peter
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