On Sun, Feb 02, 2003 at 08:17:35PM -0800, Ian Clarke spake thusly: > platform. Think of us as the Linux Kernel. Frost is welcome to think
The Linux kernel by itself is useless. Nobody really ships the kernel alone. It comes with a great many applications. Freenet needs a killer app. Frost can be it. Only in the last few months has freenet really gained anything resembling decent performance. My ds hasn't corrupted itself since the native ds came about and I can actually retrieve various sorts of files pretty reliably which is a major breakthrough. But I tired quickly of freesites, especially since they don't update all that often and the content exists only for the sake of having content. But frost messages are useful and somewhat interactive communications and people are distributing free software via frost (such as frost itself) enabling truly anonymous software authoring, collaboration, and distribution. Nothing else can do this. We need more people to run nodes. Lots more. A lot of people aren't going to run a node just so they can use fproxy and read ramblings on ugly websites with no dynamic content. Perhaps someone, not necessarily the core freenet developers, should do a freenet distribution. That's how the Linux kernel works. Put fred, frost, fmb, and eventually whatever other cool freenet apps come along together in one package all set up to install and be used. A suite of software for all of your anonymous computing needs. -- Tracy Reed http://www.ultraviolet.org
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