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PLEASE NOTE: Downloading these Knoppix ISO images via OCN will require javascript turned on in your browser, you must allow pop-up windows and you will also need Java 1.4.1 (which includes JavaWebstart).

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

Knoppix V3.6 (2004-08-16)

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So what is this? It's a peer-to-peer 'WebRAID' 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 these 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 and then sit back and watch the Tornado WebRaid plug-in auto-install (first time only) and boot up your OCN download ...

Not sure if Knoppix is for you? Want some convincing? check the blog world beat on the world's most painless introduction to Linux!

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

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

If you're curious, the seed mirror for this download is GWDG.de because they run the only HTTP mirror properly config'd to serve ISO files as binary content. (shame shame on all the rest!)

Thanks to a tip by Ry4an, we're now using the multi-feed method to start you off downloading from multiple mirrors. Your download will bias to the mirrors topologically closest to you, and each of these mirrors will register a hit, but will serve up only its relative fraction of the bits.

If you're curious about where you're pulling content and who you're serving and how much, there's a status report on your local client status page.

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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.

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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 ...

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.

After the announcement on the launch of OCN and seeing how easy it was to implement a download, and also considering that we have three machines here running the highly crippled Mandrake 9.0 with hopes to solve all our troubles with 9.1, I set out to see if I could use the OCN.

The good news is that it was as easy as adding 4 lines of Javascript. The bad news was that it wasn't that easy, and now almost three days later, I'm hoping I have it licked.

The first obstacle was not really an obstacle, just an annoyance: You can't craft an OCN link, you have to craft a special page which will contain OCN links. This is because your page must first run some javascript to alert the network of your presence, and then it re-writes all links of some certain file extension to be taken from the local http proxy, the component they call the OCN client, instead of from the source. Fair enough, it does mean you can't use a program like wget to get OCN content but that's because it's a browser trick, not a new protocol (there probably is a way to use wget, maybe to localhost:8081 or something, but that's not disclosed in their site and the software comes with no docs and no console)

Anyway, fair enough, I create this page for downloading Mandrake 9.1 RC2 and click the links knowing (because I once coded software like this for OnionNetworks back when they were part of OpenCola) I have to seed the server; their lease server needs to download the same content just once to compute the hash keys needed to ensure the content integrity. Literally translated, for ISO images, that means "come back tomorrow and try again", so I did.

Only, on the next day, the download wouldn't go through: According to the error message, and confirmed by Ry4an, OCN will not download text/plain and my chosen Mandrake mirror had not set their mime-types for .iso files, so the default is ... you guessed it. Some emails back and forth with Ry4an and it turns out they don't dare do otherwise because of the security model in MSIE, so if the server says text/plain, OCN is going to reject it. How much of a show-stopper is this? I had to try half a dozen Mandrake mirrors before I found one that used the right HTTP headers!  read more »