using a bittorent based network for rpms integrated in up2date,

Alan Cox alan at redhat.com
Sun Apr 25 15:23:54 UTC 2004


On Sun, Apr 25, 2004 at 09:30:27AM +0000, Kristof Vansant wrote:
> Using bittorent or edonkey protocol. This would safe a lot of bandwidth and 
> costs for the hosts (mirrors etc.) Downloads would go a lot faster.

Bittorrent really only works well on big files

> I don't mind being a "server" for others as long as I can say how mutch is 
> uploaded and shared etc.
> Plus being able to turn it off if I really want to. Share code, share 
> bandwidth :)

Also suggested has been alt.binaries.linux.updates.fedora....

Alan





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