On Fri, Jan 21, 2011 at 01:06:27PM -0500, M?ir?n Duffy wrote: > On Fri, 2011-01-21 at 10:41 +1030, Tim wrote: > > On Thu, 2011-01-20 at 11:22 -0500, M??ir??n Duffy wrote: > > > From talking to numerous novice users in the design of the site I'm > > > not convinced that a checksum file is something that novice users are > > > aware of or much concerned about. > > > > Ignorance is no excuse, as they old saying goes, and it's something that > > needs brought to their attention, with the full how and why. > > > > > The main download link points directly to Fedora's main server, not a > > > mirror, so they'd be downloading the checksum from the same source as > > > the payload anyway. > > > > And the non-main download links...? > > Novice users most likely won't use those. > > > It was always the recommendation, before, to not download from the main > > site, to spread the load around the mirrors. > > Yeh, it was our intention to have mirror manager generate a URL for > those download buttons that made the most sense given geographical > location, but that got dropped due to not having the time. It would be > worth bringing up again. Ah, but it does. :-) The URLs look like: http://download.fedoraproject.org/pub/fedora/linux/releases/14/Live/i686/Fedora-14-i686-Live-Desktop.iso http://download.fedoraproject.org/pub/fedora/linux/releases/14/Fedora/x86_64/iso/Fedora-14-x86_64-DVD.iso which has the goodness of MirrorManager behind it, issuing a HTTP 30x redirect to the best mirror it can. -- Matt Domsch Technology Strategist Dell | Office of the CTO -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
