>But as a first shot one could use jigdo. There is even a client for Windows >and Mac users. If you maintain the current situation until you have >implemented the perfect system you will maintain the current system forever.
Sure Robert, you are totally right ..... I am probably just running light years ahead again. Maybe all we currently need is a GUI jigdo client for Linux/Windows as a first version and then enhance it later with customizable package selections. That would do the trick and be usable not just for the geek, but also for the masses who will be the ones killing our servers, not the handful of geeks who probably already use Bittorrent, right? ..... it is the Newbie who goes straight after the iso, which kills our servers. We need a vision also to go forward and maybe rethink how traditional distro delivery works and integrates with the changing need of the market/technology and those new hundreds of million users we will be facing in the next months/years who have no idea on how this computer thing actually works apart from having an on and off button and some don't even know where that one is. Those users will define if we are actually going to be successful in gaining a substantially larger market share. I like the way jigdo and makeSUSEdvd goes, just would love to see it go even further ... makeSUSEdvd could become makeSUSE and could be jigdo based. Then one of us writes a GUI wrapper around that and makes it "pretty". The issue is getting OT, but only one more thing. The issue I noticed really is that gwdg.de is getting hammered, hence no other mirror can rsync off it in time, hence everyone goes to the main site gwdg.de and so on. What you get is a mirror system which is broken, since the main mirror, which is supposed to be there to allow rsync to happen is overloaded. Maybe rsync should happen from a server that is not public? Andreas --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
