[OT] Bit Torrent - was Re: trouble with up2date

[Brian Fahrlander]

On Mon, 2003-11-17 at 11:21, Edward Croft wrote:
> On Mon, 2003-11-17 at 11:57, Andy Green wrote:
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> > On Monday 17 November 2003 16:14, Dave Roberts wrote:
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> > > I was actually thinking about just this same thing the other day. What
> > > if we crossed yum with bittorrent?
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> I have been hearing a lot about bit torrent. Just curious as to what it
> is? My guess is a kazaa-like file trading system. Just wondering if it
> has the same inherent security risks?

   No, it's a little different than everything you're used to.  It's
kinda like an ftp mechanism, but as you download files, other people may
be able to download 'chunks' of what you've downloaded so that it
relieves the pressure on the main site.

   It's a brilliant idea, no doubt...but I've only gotten the non-gui to
work, since it seems like wxGTK and other files are only available to
people who's third letter of their last names is a "G".  (The only
rationale I could devise; it's never been included in the RH9, Fedora,
or Matt's Gnome 2.4beta collections....and it seems very Ximian-based,
if I'm remembering correctly.  It's a pain.

    But if you can get it, I'm told it's truly a breeze.
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