hahahahaha thanks for the mid-afternoon humor.
On Mon, May 01, 2006 at 08:09:11PM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> As I saw the website providing torrents for 3.9 I just thought about
> somethign for packages.
>
> Isn`t it be possible to switch to torrents to install packages?
> In fact there many mirrors and if they all would maybe use torrent the
> synergy-effect would be great.
>
> With the trackerless-torrents the Servers don`t even need to set up an
> additinal Daemon (tracker).
> It may would make more sense for the install sets because there are far
> more packages but the synergy-effect would remain.
>
> I think http://openbsd.somedomain.net/ proofs this concept right.
>
>
> What`s your oppinion about this?!
> This would reduce the load of the (Mirror-)Servers and peoples who`ve a
> limited connection (e.g. traffic limit or who`ve to pay for each MB) could
> still use FTP/http.
> This would be also true for peoples who`re behind a restrictive Firewall
> (even this limits just the Upload)
>
>
> Kind regards,
> Sebastian
