Resending now, actually.
Laura Arjona Reina
https://wiki.debian.org/LauraArjona
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Subject: Suggestions to update the https://www.debian.org/CD/ page
From: Matt Weeks <[email protected]>
Date: Thu, 16 Mar 2017 17:23:05 -0500
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The https://www.debian.org/CD/ page seems a bit outdated. Is there someone here
who can update it?
I'd suggest changing
"Due to space and bandwidth constraints, only very few mirrors are able to
supply direct HTTP/FTP download links. These sites may use bandwidth
throttling, downloads can be quite slow. Please use jigdo or bittorrent
instead. DVD images are only available for some architectures and not on all
mirrors."
To:
"Many mirrors supply direct HTTP download links you can download with your
browser."
And moving it to the top.
It is no longer true that few mirrors can serve HTTP; there’s 182 mirrors
serving. The FTP links have been removed. I would also remove the bit about
bandwidth throttling. I would be surprised if many of these mirrors still do
bandwidth throttling, at least in my unscientific downloads from a few randomly
selected mirrors, I don’t seem to notice any very slow downloads.
Broadband penetration has also dramatically increased, statistics in nearly all
the countries as I can find show that most users with internet access (that can
view this page) will also have broadband. E.g. Pew says 84% of U.S. households
own a computer, and 73% of households have broadband. China Daily says Chinese
speeds average 9.46 Mb/s. So I do not believe it is appropriate any more to put
the best option for dial-up at the top of the page. And while there’s nothing
wrong with jigdo or bittorrent, it will probably take the average user more
time to download, install, and open jigdo than to simply download the iso from
their closest mirror in their browser using the auto mirror selector.
Speaking of that, the automatic mirror selector has been working for over a
year now, so perhaps we should drop the “experimental” label and make it the
default as well. I do not think it is used for the iso links on
https://www.debian.org/distrib/ ? Do we plan to use it there?
Thanks,
Matt
