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Mandrake Linux Download (OCN)

Posted by garym on Wed, 09/17/2003 - 15:16
be nice to your mirrors ...

Download Mandrake Linux
via Open Content Network

Looking for BitTorrent links for the latest ISO's? You can click to the Mandrake QA BitTorrent downloads (use this direct torrent link for 10.1-Official-Edition)
or download your Mandrake Official or Community editions from
Linux ISO BitTorrents from Usagi. Also, new with 10.1, you can grab the All in One DVD Edition via BitTorrent.

Unofficial Bit-Torrents: 10.1-Official is also availble on some the off-shore Torrent servers ...

IMPORTANT: Downloading ISO images via OCN requires a javascript-enabled browser, you must allow pop-up windows and you need Java 1.4.1 (which includes JavaWebstart).

If you don't get it, you just don't get it.

MAKE YOUR MOVE: Mandrake Move is here! -- Want to test drive Linux but aren't quite ready to commit half your hard drive? Download the new Mandrake Move ISO and run the world's most favourite GNU straight off the CD

So what is this? It's a peer-to-peer file-trading network where we all share the load of downloading popular files. Basically, you get some, I get some, you give me some, I give you some, and when everyone is doing this all together, we can all get the ISO files without killing the server. Does it work? You bet it does. Prepare to make your ISP very angry with you ;)

Click each ISO disk name to download -- click the links for each ISO file and then sit back and watch the Tornado WebRaid plug-in auto-install (first time only) and boot up your OCN download ...

Mandrake 10.1 (Official Download)
MandrakeMove 2 (Live CD)

    The fourth ISO CD is a new feature, a live bootable MandrakeLinux distribution on one CD -- no installation required, just put it in your CD drive and re-boot. (you might need to set your BIOS for CD-boot) --- ideal for the traveller to use with a home-dir on a USB stick from a software-challenged Internet Café and an excellent low-risk way to see if Mandrake Linux is the GNU for you.
Mandrake 10.1 (Community Edition)
Not sure if Mandrake is for you? Want some convincing? check the blog world beat!

IMPORTANT: After downloading, your browser will continue to serve portions of the ISO files to other downloaders; this is how we all share the distribution load!

If this really bugs you, just exit your browser or hunt down the top process number for JavaWS and kill it.

ATTENTION FTP SITE ADMINS: Just for the record, I have a lot of trouble setting the seed mirror for this download because very few of you are serving ISO files as binary content. A pox on ye who know not of mime tables and application/octet-stream (you bring shame on all our houses!)

If you're curious about where you're pulling content, who you're serving and how much, click into your local client status page.

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OpenContent ... or BitTorrent?

Submitted by garym on Tue, 08/17/2004 - 16:44.

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!

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