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diff --git a/site/download/index.php b/site/download/index.php new file mode 100644 index 0000000..82a3d1d --- /dev/null +++ b/site/download/index.php @@ -0,0 +1,98 @@ +<!DOCTYPE html> +<html> +<head> + <meta charset="utf-8"> + <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1"> + + <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="../css/main.css" /> + + <title>Download libreboot</title> + +</head> + +<?php + include_once "../variables.php"; +?> + +<body> + + <div class="contain"> + + <div id="libreboot" class="section intro"> + + <h1>Download libreboot</h1> + + <p> + Torrent (magnet) links to releases, and links to third-party HTTP mirrors. Use this page + to download libreboot. These are stable releases; for development (unstable) releases, + refer back to the home page. + </p> + + <p> + <b>This page isn't actually ready yet. For now, the official download page + is at <a href="../docs/release.html">../docs/release.html</a>. On the next release of libreboot after r20150208, + release archives will no longer be hosted on the libreboot.org HTTP server. Old releases + will be deleted and moved to bittorrent. New releases will also be hosted on bittorrent.</b> + </p> + + <p> + <b>Why bittorrent? As we all know, bittorrent is inherently more efficient than a HTTP server + for large files, due to its peer-to-peer distributed nature. Libreboot releases are actually much + more efficient now, where ROM images for each machine are separated into their own tar archives. + The old 'binary' archive is now named 'utils'. Documentation is also deleted from 'utils' and 'src' + and now available in a separate archive. All of this means that the user has a much more streamlined + way of getting libreboot releases, with less data to download. Bittorrent will improve this even + further, giving users faster download speeds.</b> + </p> + + <p> + <b>Bittorrent is also redundant. The libreboot project will not actually host its own tracker at all, + but it will instead use many public trackers and publish the magnet links. The website is also + hosted in git, which means that everything is easier to mirror. If libreboot.org is down, you'll + still be able to download libreboot so long as you have those magnet links.</b> + </p> + + <p> + Information about these releases can be found under docs/release.html in the libreboot_docs archive + or in the git git repository. See <a href="../docs/release.html">../docs/release.html</a>. + </p> + + <p> + It has been suggested to setup RSS feeds for this, so that people can automatically download and seed new releases. + TODO: look into this. + </p> + + <p> + <a href="../">Back to homepage</a> + </p> + + </div> + + <div class="section"> + + <h2>XXXXYYZZ</h2> + <p> + Next release. Date unknown. + </p> + <h2>r20150208</h2> + <p> + The magnet links for libreboot releases aren't actually available yet. + It will all be moved later. This page is just a template for the time being. + </p> + <h2>TODO: populate this page.</h2> + + </div> + + <div class="section footer"> + +<?php + include "../footer.php"; +?> + + </div> + + </div> + +</body> +</html> + |