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OpenContent ... or BitTorrent?

garym — Tue, 17 Aug 2004 17:44:17 -0400

Although this page has had tens of thousands of page views, I do wonder: is it useful?

Keeping this page in sync with the releases takes some effort to monitor the release directories and then hand-edit the Open Content Network links -- that's a lot of bother if most people who arrive here either don't have Java (so their download reverts to plain HTTP) or if they just use the BitTorrent (most Linux distros configure Mozilla to automatically handle BT links).

So what say you?

* I should keep the Open Content Network links even if they occasionally get out of sync, at least they let people know the list of mirrors where they can find the ISOs, and besides, the BitTorrent maintainers are very often weeks behind the release dates.
* or should I just keep links to all known BitTorrent hosts and a few HTTP mirrors and let people sort it out on their own.
* or did you just find this page was frustrating because it wasn't what you thought it was and leaves you no better off than when you arrived!

Comments?

OOExtras

garym — Tue, 16 Dec 2003 12:51:07 -0500

Need label templates? Business documents? Clip-art? There's an emerging project at ooextras.sourceforge.net where the community of OpenOffice.org have contributed their best templates for general use.

Towards that accessible, non-techie computer

Fri, 27 Jun 2003 17:39:09 -0400

I came across your webpage from a google search the other day. I've recently become involved in adaptive technology, as an assistant teacher. Our program uses expensive hard/softwares. I have been delving into reading about accessible linux softwares, and have started some investigations here to see about them (i.e., how functional, how user-friendly, how hard to administer). It looks like the value is great, but so is the investment. Your goal to make a friendly, accessible box for a non-techie user is one I would like to get behind. I wonder: What has been going on with that since you posted that statement? How could we work together to accomplish the goal?