[gNewSense-users] Mirrors

[Anthony L. Bryan]

Hi,

I've added a Metalink for your ISO at
http://www.metalinker.org/samples/gnewsense-livecd-1.0.iso.metalink

It lists your mirrors & checksum, which allows download programs to offer
higher reliability, speed, and automatic checksum verification. You can list
the mirrors by location and priority. You can also list p2p sources, but I
haven't done so here.

There are Metalink clients on Unix, Mac, and Windows. aria2
(http://aria2.sourceforge.net/) is a nice Unix command line downloader.
wxDownload Fast (http://dfast.sourceforge.net/) is cross platform and has a
GUI.

If you're interested, here's how others are using Metalink:
http://distribution.openoffice.org/p2p/magnet.html
http://en.opensuse.org/Released_Version#Metalink
http://www.archlinux.org/download/
http://www.pcbsd.org/?p=download

I've included the Metalink here so you can take a look, it's just XML.

(( Anthony Bryan
 )) Metalink [ http://www.metalinker.org ]


<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<metalink version="3.0" generator="Metalink Generator v1.00.0037"
xmlns="http://www.metalinker.org/";>
  <publisher>
    <name>gNewSense</name>
    <url>http://www.gnewsense.org/</url>
  </publisher>
  <description>gNewSense, a GNU/Linux project, to take all the binary blobs
out of a rather popular distribution and make it all free.</description>
  <files>
    <file name="gnewsense-livecd-1.0.iso">
      <version>1.0</version>
      <verification>
        <hash type="md5">05ddb2c1f5c1e9c36bf6c42347072015</hash>
      </verification>
      <resources>
        <url type="http"
preference="100">http://cdimage.gnewsense.org/gnewsense-livecd-1.0.iso</url>
        <url type="http" location="de"
preference="90">http://gnewsense.t3-ie.info/gnewsense-livecd-1.0.iso</url>
        <url type="http" location="us"
preference="90">http://gnewsense.tomcort.com/cdimage/gnewsense-livecd-1.0.is
o</url>
        <url type="http" location="nl"
preference="90">http://mirror.softwarelibre.nl/gnewsense/cdimage/gnewsense-l
ivecd-1.0.iso</url>
      </resources>
    </file>
  </files>
</metalink>