On Jan 25, 2008 3:58 PM, Arthur Pemberton <pemboa@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Jan 25, 2008 3:31 PM, William Hooper <whooperhsd@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > On Jan 25, 2008 4:19 PM, Arthur Pemberton <pemboa@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > > > > I have "Bob" the link to the fedora unity spins page > > > Bob was able to read the page > > > Bob was able to detect that though the page, he could get the CD ISOs > > > Bob was able to click the links and get to the message where he was > > > told abotu jigdo and given the jigdo file to download > > > Bob then concluded that jigdo was Linux only, so gave up as he was on Windows > > > > Way be when I first looked at downloading Debian, I had a similar > > experience. The difference was that I see no value in having to > > download and install a special program that I'm going to only use once > > to download one thing. I already have ways of downloading files via > > ftp, http, etc., why do I need to mess with this new program? > > Well... it does use http. The why would be for similar reasons people > use torrent. Also like why you could use a telnet client to browse to > view a web page via http, but you get a browser instead (bad example). Also, Windows users would be more than accustom of downloading one program to get another. And in this case, jigdo isn't use to download only one program. -- Fedora 7 : sipping some of that moonshine ( www.pembo13.com )
