[ale] Re: Need New Home & Admin for List & Site

[James Sumners]

The "install/upgrade software" bit makes me think he is talking about
the BT protocol being built into package managers, e.g. apt. That
would be a _horrible_ idea. But if he is talking about serving ISOs
from a local ale tracker, that is good in theory, but would not work
out very well. Who would seed the torrents? Plus, just about every
distribution provides their own torrent, and it is usually seeded very
well.

2008/1/28  <deritchie at earthlink.net>:
> I would guess he's serious.. Torrents would drasticly cut the bandwidth requirements vs. ftp.
>
> ---Dave
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>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: "James Sumners" <james.sumners at gmail.com>
>
> Date: Mon, 28 Jan 2008 09:27:39
> To:"Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts" <ale at ale.org>
> Subject: Re: [ale] Re: Need New Home & Admin for List & Site
>
>
> I can't figure out if you're joking or being serious.
>
> On Jan 28, 2008 8:20 AM,  <bugy at bellsouth.net> wrote:
> > I think is about the time torrent system to be a option in install/upgrade software!
> >
> > Something like running torrents.ale.org :)



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