RCs for Everyone (was One (more) week slip of Fedora 11 Release)

[Michael Cronenworth]

Seth Vidal wrote:
> 
> And it is probably worth reading the analysis of mirrors and torrents 
> written by John Hawley
> 
>  http://linuxsymposium.org/2008/ols-2008-Proceedings-V1.pdf page 173
>  

The analysis leaves out DHT and PXE. These features alleviate stress on 
trackers. Also, UPnP is becoming common place. This allows transparent 
port forwarding -- although Fedora keeps the firewall blocking by default.

It also does not disclose torrent user clients. Depending on the user 
client, it may/may not work well. Bad clients can ruin a torrent. Black 
listing bad clients (even users) can keep torrents healthy.

The analysis also leaves off any numbers of HTTP download counts. Most 
people want to click on an HTTP link and download with their browser. 
They'll skip over the bittorrent link, which is hidden anyway.

I don't like the analysis not just because it shows bittorrent in a bad 
light, but because the author has a poor understanding of bittorrent.