[advocacy-discuss] Splash page

[Derek Cicero]

Al Hopper wrote:
> On Thu, May 1, 2008 at 7:29 PM, Derek Cicero <derek.cicero at sun.com> wrote:
> 
>> All,
>>
>> Working off everyone's feedback and the pages Michelle put together,
>> here is the latest plan for 5/5:
>>
>>  http://www.opensolaris.org/sc/derek/splash_index.html
>>
> ...... snip .....
> 
> I hope you'll have a prominent place for high capacity mirror sites,
> like Genunix.org, who'll be able to provide content at the designated
> go-live time.  At the moment, I think its safe to say that Genunix has
> more available download capacity than Sun usually provides (? open to
> correction).
> 
> I would hate to see a highly visible launch like this spoiled by a
> poor initial download experience.

The download link will go to the os.com/download page (since it has the 
license info) but the file itself will come from the same location as 
before, on the dlc servers.

The .com site should be pointing to mirrors the way we do here:

http://www.opensolaris.org/os/project/indiana/resources/getit/

I don't know if that page is supposed to be going away on 5/5.

I would say from my standpoint, I would not want to remove/redirect the 
page above unless the new page has mirror info.

As for capacity, the dlc system has 3-5 servers (I believe) in different 
  geos, so it should have a plenty of capacity - but we should still 
mirror anyway.

Derek

> 
> Regards,
> 


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Derek Cicero
Program Manager
Solaris Kernel Group, Software Division