If I use DownThemAll with splitted streams in Firefox I easily reach 300KB/s, means fullspeed.

Don’t say Chinese mirrors. The Chinese mirror are within the educational network that has a somehow modem connection-speed, or isn’t even reachable from outside .edu.cn

If I use Ubuntu, which has a good server in china speed is fantastic. And further more, ubuntu starts multiple downloads at the same time.

I would like to see a more intelligent download function, like aria2c or DownThemAll integrated.
Or simply open more parallell download.

Waiting 8 hours for 199kB update really sucks……

Overall, a Good BUSY WEEK

1. update the installer to use layers instead of shell glob or similar order for package install.

2. clearly identify the “installer package” so that folks-like-me might try our hand at #1 or
any other changes we think are interesting or useful

EXPLANATION:

What do I mean by “use layers”? Think about an onion.

[NOTE -- I don't intend this to be a complete and exhaustive specification. I want to
get this idea out there for consideration. We can write a detailed spec once we decide
that this is a "good idea".]

Install Phase-1
At the core is the hardware. Hardware
demands firmware and drivers. Drivers require a kernel. Kernel requires loadable modules.
Somewhere in all of this is “the network”.
…
At some point you have enough so that one can boot to a running kernel that will use all of
the hardware.
…

Reboot away from install media and use the target system HDD and other resources.

Install Phase-2
A minimum-bootable system requires administrative and utility components to enable configuration.
Some configuration details depend on the installed hardware. Some depend on user preference.

On reboot, launch an end-user interview application that (1) asks about how this
system will get used, and (2) uses the interview and installed hardware to create
a set of install work orders for Phase-2. Again, avoid glob or similar installs.
Instead install all of whatever is needed to deliver a complete feature — not package,
“feature”. We will likely need to find a suitable definition of “feature” but
I offer this: an office productivity suite is a package; it isn’t useful without
the ability to print documents; printing is another package; these two packages likely
have dependencies; when you have a complete whatever that delivers value to the
end-user, you have a “feature”. Either the entire feature installs successfully,
or the entire feature fails.

[Note - One common complaint about linux from my clients revolves around the situation
where they want to do XXX, download components to do XXX, and then must walk
a mine field probing for whatever else they need.]

** There are some components that everyone will want regardless of intended use
such as print.

** A server system requires some list of server-specific components.
Anything desktop might be optional in a server configuration.

** A desktop system requires some list of desktop-specific components.
Anything server might be optional in a desktop configuration.

Run the list of work orders.