On Mon, 17 Nov 2003, Jonathan Hutchins wrote:

> Gentoo seems to be new and obscure enough that nobody has ever hit an
> overloaded, down, or out-of-date server.  That or somebody's giving us a
> shine job.

Gentoo has something so simple, its funny.

There's a nice little script called mirrorselect that grabs a list of
servers that claimed to have voluntered, downloads a md5summed snippet
from each, and compiles a list of the fastest.  It also configures the
system to fetch from the fastest ones first and then down the list.

Now that everyone has seen it works, someone needs to go out and patent 
it.