[Mageia-dev] Proposal for Mageia: implement bitorrent protocol to allow updates download

Michael Scherer misc at zarb.org
Thu Jan 13 11:09:58 CET 2011


Le mercredi 12 janvier 2011 à 20:14 +0100, Marcello Anni a écrit :
> > Thanks Olivier, for saying this much better than I could
> > 
> > wobo, yet another mirror maintainer
> > 
> yes wobo, but  except Per Øyvind no one has really answered to my question... 
> i think if that if we want Mageia to become the most popular distro over the 
> world -yep!- we should find a way to augment the overall bandwith available for 
> updates download, and what's better than bittorrent protocol to use user 
> available bandwith to do this? i would like to know:

I think that we should 
1) diagnose exactly the problem you see
2) then decide on the solution.

So what is the problem when you download updates ?


-- 
Michael Scherer



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