I just read up on Bittorrent a little. It appears that it is coded to give
preferential treatment to those who upload lots when it comes to queing
downloads. Did I miss something in my readings? If not, I don't think this
would really help out too much.
>From the FAQ:
"I don't want you stealing my bandwidth! How can I stop it from uploading?
You could hack the source to not upload, but then your download rate
would suck. BitTorrent downloaders engage in tit-for-tat with their peers,
so leeches have very little success downloading."
So, if I interpret this right, you gain the benifits by joining a peer-peer
network, and contributing. If we are looking to distribute Cluggix, I doubt
very many of the people who'll want it will want to join a p2p network just
to get it.
Shawn
-----Original Message-----
From: Jesse Kline [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Tuesday, August 26, 2003 2:50 PM
To: CLUG TALK
Subject: Re: (clug-talk) Cluggix Downloads + Bittorrent
On Tue, 2003-08-26 at 14:04, Jeffrey Clement wrote:
> Anyone else interested in playing with something like this?
Bittorrent rocks! I think that it is the best way of hosting a project
like Cluggix. I was thinking about setting up a tracker myself, and
hosting an iso of the cluggix version that I have, but I just haven't
found the time. The other thing I was wondering about was the
development status of Cluggix, I haven't heard anything in awhile, is it
still under active development?
Jesse
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Jesse Kline, RHCT
