How about having a graphical mirror list?
Mike McGrath
mmcgrath at redhat.com
Sun Oct 28 15:44:30 UTC 2007
susmit shannigrahi wrote:
>> One addition that will come in Fedora 9 (I don't think it made it into
>> F8 but I could be wrong) is that anaconda, the installer, will be able
>> to use the mirrorlist directly. This will avoid the user having to
>> type in a URL for their country at all - it will be automagic based on
>> GeoIP, just like the updates are.
>>
>
> That should be great..but I was talking about _manual_ downloads, not
> anaconda or yum.
> For example when someone wants to download the .iso files et al.
> Won't this be more easier than traversing the list?
>
The graphical map would be cool but I think the "2 clicks to live CD"
feature we'll be implementing soon is more useful:
https://hosted.fedoraproject.org/projects/fedora-infrastructure/ticket/74
This will direct users to a geo close mirror without them having to
figure it out, using GeoIP.
-Mike
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