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

Thu Jan 13 00:31:22 CET 2011

* Marcello Anni (marcello.anni at alice.it) wrote:
+> > 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:
+> 
+> - if it is possible from a techincal pov
+> - if it is convenient and useful (overall in a long-term vision)
+> - if we could plan it for the coming releases (and who could take in charge 
+> this)
+
+I can quickly answer to this:
+- bittorent is denied where distrib-coffee is hosted.
+
+This close every discuss on this side.
+
+But I can probably setup a bittorent server elsewhere (it is nice to
+work with two different university). But first I have to ask to network
+administrator.
+
+From my own experience, I never saw bittorent so efficient for
+downloading, except it reduce the bandwidth for the team making the iso
+available (and this is still not sure).
+
+BTW: It's time to find mirrors for the distribution ! Any volunteer ?
+http://mirrors.mageia.org/
+
+Regards.
+
+> 
+> 
+> cheers,
+> Marcello 
+-- 
+
+Olivier Thauvin
+CNRS  -  LATMOS
+♖ ♘ ♗ ♕ ♔ ♗ ♘ ♖
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