DSL Ideas and Suggestions :: Add a metalink for DSL isos



Metalink is, simplified, a xml list of download locations. It also checks the md5sum during download.
As good metalink clients, like aria2, use segmented downloading, making this one link would give speed and stability to capable clients.

I propose adding a metalink as the first link on DSL download page.

I know aria2 can use segmented downloading in itself, but finding say 10 mirrors of DSL and copying all the addresses to the command line takes time.

A web-based creator is here: http://www.metalinker.org/generator/
Using it I created a metalink of DSL 3.4 isolinux iso. It assumes that this metalink is located as "www.damnsmalllinux.org/dsl.metalink" for updating status eg... If you decide to use it, it's here.

(to use it, copy it to the DSL server and add a link to it)
Oh, copy it with wget as browsers tend to format it wrongly
Hey! Just as I pulled Metalink and BitTorrent out of aria2.uci too!  :(
Oh no!

p.s. I thought Metalink was unpopular enough to justify removing it. As for BitTorrent, I rationalized that rtorrent was a better and smaller client. aria.uci went from 608K to 224K and I happily sent it in.  :p
aria2 is the only cmdline Metalink client. Maybe I really should put Metalink back.
Yeah ;)
but ctorrent sweeps the floor with rtorrent ;)
I have added a Metalink link to the download page. Please test and leave feedback.
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