Re: Downloading NetBSD - Too complicated ?

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

Hi Michel,

the main idea is that the click to target ratio should be lowered (drastically).
This can be accomplished by leading the visitor from the main site
to the download site, which includes the direct download links for our
tier 1 archs.
All other archs could be listed on the same page listed below
the tier 1 archs.

Optionally, the links on the download site could pass the selected
image to a script that evaluates the IP from the client and redirects
him to the closest mirror.

Cheers,
Zafer


2014-02-07 0:46 GMT+01:00 Michel Behr <michelbehr%gmail.com@localhost>:
> The idea that netbsd "is directed to a different kind of user" is really...
> Limiting. :-) and a little disappointing to me... Anyone should be welcome,
> noobs included. If someone wants to just make a quick download to give
> netbsd a try, go ahead, give it try, why not? Ask stupid questions, help us
> on testing, go do some maintenance on the site, etc. If there's a genuine
> interest in making netbsd better and better, the community should get more
> people on board, not only "high class devs".
>
> I'm not an active dev, but I'd just answer zafer: "this is a great idea!
> Could you elaborate and help us do that, I mean, write a proposition about
> how to apply pcbsd downloading dynamic into netbsd site? Maybe contacting
> someone from the pcbsd project to help out with some insights...? By the
> way, thank you zafer, and welcome aboard!"
>
> Why be such a jerk and reject the idea...? :-/ don't get it, it's like
> peeing against the wind... :-)
>
>
> On Thursday, February 6, 2014, Zafer Aydoğan <zafer%aydogan.de@localhost> 
> 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.
>>
>> Here is the click path to get a copy of NetBSD, starting from
>> www.netbsd.org:
>>
>> 1.: Click on "Get NetBSD" link
>> 2.: Click on FTP link
>> 3.: Click on one of the mirrors
>> 4.: Click on a version, e.g. 6.1.3
>> 5.: Click on images
>> 6.: Click on an iso file
>>
>> Six clicks and a lot of confusion. You are lost at any point, if you
>> don't know exactly what you are looking for.
>>
>> Additionally, after clicking on the "Get NetBSD" link, you are presented
>> with
>> four additional links, which is: Bittorrent, FTP, FTP and HTTP.
>> At this point it is not immediately obvious where to click on and at
>> least after selecting
>> an ftp or http mirror, you are lost in the directory and version
>> jungle of NetBSD.
>>
>> We need to simplify the way to download an image.
>> In comparison, at www.freebsd.org, you get your iso within 3 clicks.
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Zafer