On Jan 25, 2008 4:08 PM, William Hooper whooperhsd@gmail.com wrote:
On Jan 25, 2008 4:58 PM, Arthur Pemberton pemboa@gmail.com wrote:
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).
Exactly my point. I already have a bunch of programs to download files. "Bob" is going to ask why he can't just use IE, Firefox, uTorrent, <insert P2P app-o-the-week>. Why do I need this "special" download program that I've never heard of that I will only use to download Fedora? If Linux is that hard, why bother...
Why not another? because it's to download linux?
Personally, I can see where jigdo makes sense if you already have some of the files downloaded, but the new user is going to be starting from zero.
I think the mirrors may appreciate it.