Metalink News : 15 Oct 2008

[Ant Bryan]

Metalink wins Silver in Sun Microsystem's Community Innovation
Program for OpenOffice.org!
Fedora's MirrorManager serves up Metalinks
Podcasts: Anne van Kesteren (Opera) & Shawn Wilsher (Firefox)
OpenOffice.org 3.0 Metalinks by MirrorBrain
Updated: aria2, KGet
Internet Draft: Metalink Download Description Format

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Metalink wins Silver in Sun Microsystem's Community Innovation
Program for OpenOffice.org!

The Metalink Project entered as a team and was awarded Silver! We'd
like to thank Sun, the rest of the OpenOffice.org community, and
everyone who has helped propel our project along!

Team members:

Anthony Bryan, USA
René Leonhardt, Germany
Nils Maier, Germany
Neil McNab, USA
Bram Neijt, Netherlands
Peter Poeml, Germany
Manuel Subredu, Romania
Tatsuhiro Tsujikawa, Japan
Hampus Wessman, Sweden

http://www.sun.com/software/opensource/awards/index.jsp?intcmp=1455
http://development.openoffice.org/awardees-2008.html
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Fedora's MirrorManager serves up Metalinks

Thanks to work by Matt Domsch, you can now get Metalinks direct from
Fedora.

"It's easy to get the metalink URL for a given
download.fedoraproject.org ISO URL.

http://download.fedoraproject.org/pub/fedora/linux/releases/test/10-Beta/Fedora/i386/iso/Fedora-10-Beta-i386-DVD.iso

becomes

http://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/metalink?path=pub/fedora/linux/releases/test/10-Beta/Fedora/i386/iso/Fedora-10-Beta-i386-DVD.iso
"

https://hosted.fedoraproject.org/mirrormanager
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Podcasts: Anne van Kesteren (Opera) & Shawn Wilsher (Firefox)

Anne van Kesteren of Opera talks about open standards.
Shawn Wilsher from Mozilla opens up about Firefox & getting involved
in open source projects.

http://knowledgecaps.com/2008/09/19/fos-fresh-online-servicesopera/
http://knowledgecaps.com/2008/10/05/fos-fresh-online-servicesfirefox/
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OpenOffice.org 3.0 Metalinks by MirrorBrain

The lovely MirrorBrain now serves up Metalinks for OpenOffice.org.

http://openoffice.mirrorbrain.org/

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Updated: aria2, KGet

http://aria2.sourceforge.net/
http://www.kde.org/
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Internet Draft: Metalink Download Description Format

An Internet Draft describing the Metalink format has been submitted to
the IETF.
We're looking for review and public comments.

http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-bryan-metalink-03
with interim revisions at
http://metalinks.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/metalinks/internetdraft/