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How to fix itHow to fix itPosted Jul 14, 2008 18:21 UTC (Mon) by jwb (guest, #15467)In reply to: How to fix it by epa Parent article: Study: Attacks on package managers
From the user's perspective, the a mirror is better than bittorrent. Mirrors are known-good hosts with lots of bandwidth. The point of bittorrent is that you can distribute a file which otherwise you would not be able to distribute. People seem to forget that central element of bittorrent, and turn it around to mean that users should expect extremely fast download rates. That's not true. Bittorrent allows you to download a file that otherwise would not be available. That it is sometimes fast is simple and artifact of the implementation.
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How to fix it Posted Jul 15, 2008 8:12 UTC (Tue) by zeridon (guest, #46234) [Link] Hmm the points said are a bit interesting but untill now everyone forgets that there is ibiblio and it's sibling Osprey & Permaseed Basically with that soft they can implement a mirror and BT with seeds directly from the storrage and on the big pipe. Last month it was prety usefull 2-3 hours delay from the oficial eclipse release and pushing hard for the torrents. It made some diffference. The server wasn't so bogged down, and as eclipse is just sw nobody kills the torrent so we have more seeds :)
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