On Tue, Oct 11, 2005 at 09:53:05AM +0200, Nicola -kOoLiNuS- Losito wrote:
One, if not THE, thing I like about mandriva is:
Extremely cool. Combine it with something like http://www.maxmind.com/geoip/api/c.shtml and a database and you have yourself a killer website. It could look what your country is and then look up what the best mirror might be for you and offer it as the first one. Naturaly you will still have a choice to choose another. Perhaps for countries that have more then one server, you could make a randomzier, so each time you get a new first choice. And for places where there is no information for one reason or another, you could point to a few of the main ones at random. That would be indeed a great way to get all the links to add as an instalation source as well as to get the correct place for download. Looking at the whois info, I think it is not directly linked to Mandriva. Perhaps someone interested in hosting such a thing could ask him to share the source and rewrite it for SUSE? houghi -- Quote correct (NL) http://www.briachons.org/art/quote/ Zitiere richtig (DE) http://www.afaik.de/usenet/faq/zitieren Quote correctly (EN) http://www.netmeister.org/news/learn2quote.html