Re: Downloading NetBSD - Too complicated ?

[Zafer Aydoğan <zafer%aydogan.de@localhost>]

Christoph, its not about the CDN, its about the number of steps.
A CDN on the other hand is nice to have and saves you the hassle to
pick a mirror. But CDN provider are usually not for free.
But the same can be achieved with geodns or geoip targeting.
The latter is easy to implement and picks a mirror close to you.

2014-02-06 21:14 GMT+01:00 Christian Koch <cfkoch%sdf.lonestar.org@localhost>:
> On Thu, Feb 06, 2014 at 01:51:06PM +0100, Zafer Aydogan wrote:
>> Hello NetBSD-Users,
>>
>> A couple of days ago I stumbled across the announcement of PCBSD 10
>> and gave it a shot.
>> Downloading was easy and fast, because it utilizes a CDN.
>> At that point, I crosschecked with www.netbsd.org and was embarrassed, how
>> complicated it is to get a copy of NetBSD.
>
> CDN means "content delivery network," right? How is a FTP site not a CDN?
>
> I must echo what everyone else has said. PC-BSD and NetBSD are in completely
> different fields. They thus *require* different downloading and installation
> procedures.