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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.

Mandrake 9.2 Now Available!

garym — Sun, 16 Nov 2003 17:32:08 -0500

I haven't tested it yet, but I have fixed the links now that the mirrors have updated their ISO collections to the new 9.2 CDs.

bq. Download Mandrake ISO images here

Mandrake 9.2

garym — Thu, 23 Oct 2003 09:55:29 -0400

In case you're wondering, yes, that same page link does get updated to list newer releases.

Right now, it's still 9.1: As of this moment, 9.2 hasn't yet appeared on the ISO mirrors, but the core distro directories have appeared, 9.2RC2 has been dropped, and it's only a matter of time before I get one of my webwatch alerts telling me to update that page to the new file locations.