At 8:36 AM -0700 7/3/05, Benjamin Franz wrote: >On Sun, 3 Jul 2005, Rahul Sundaram wrote: >[snip] >> >> Linking to these websites from the Fedora download page would require that >> the project page be a generic one like sf.net. Linking to random personal >> webpages or commercial webprojects without getting explicit permission from >> them. Bandwidth costs a huge amount. That is a liability. Linking to >> particular mirrors is a bad idea too especially when they are overloaded >> since the users wont be able to reach those webpages anyway. > >[snip] > >Redhat could have just mirrored the sha1sum.exe file itself to the Fedora >website. It is not huge (20 *Kbytes*) and is GPLed. Rather than trying to >get other people to mirror it on Redhat's behalf. Redhat would not have >even noticed the bandwith bump: The utility is smaller than the downloads >page itself with its images and stylesheets. "Me too." I hope you can do it right away if not sooner (say, on 9 June 05 ;), as leaving it out makes it hard to install FC4 from MSWindows. Also, the links to the Release Notes and Release Notes Errata should emphasise that the Errata are the /complete/ and current Release Notes, not just some changes: "current updated release notes, with enhancements and bug fixes for the notes in the link above." ____________________________________________________________________ TonyN.:' <mailto:tonynelson@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> ' <http://www.georgeanelson.com/>
