[ale] Creating and Verifying Torrent Files?

[Lightner, Jeff]

Yes but these days some things are only being offered in torrents - e.g.
the CentOS 5 DVD ISO (the CDs are still available as downloads).

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From: ale-bounces at ale.org [mailto:ale-bounces at ale.org] On Behalf Of
James Sumners
Sent: Monday, May 09, 2011 3:10 PM
To: Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts
Subject: Re: [ale] Creating and Verifying Torrent Files?

Only for the person trying to distribute something. For the person
doing the downloading it offers very little advantage over a
traditionally distributed file. In fact, it usually ends up either a)
sucking up way too many resources because you're attached to too many
nodes in the swarm or b) takes even longer because there are very few
(usually poor) nodes in the swarm.

On Mon, May 9, 2011 at 3:00 PM, Lightner, Jeff <JLightner at water.com>
wrote:
> tried explaining it saves bandwidth



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