On Tue, 2008-04-15 at 15:06 -0400, Bake Timmons wrote: > I wanted to mention what I have noticed recently about sharing of free > software materials:
> > 2. After months of uploading 8 GB/day of mostly free software related > materials over file sharing networks, I have noticed an unusual *uptick* > in the uploading of my copy of the main gNewSense 1.1 Live CD image in > the past two days. Typically in the past, it may have risen to one or > two, but lately it has been about a half dozen scattered all over the > planet. It's a good thing that I cannot explain, especially given how > old the download is. :) Probably to do with the pending release of (go)Ubuntu. > > 3. The materials in *heaviest* demand are in *Spanish*, e.g., certain > videotaped speeches of RMS are regularly requested. Hmm. Not supprised - Spain and latin america are quite strongly free software. > > 4. If anyone is lucky enough like me to have some bandwidth to spare, I > hope that they condider using the eDonkey network in addition to or any other P2P probably. > BitTorrent. I have uploaded hundreds of gigabytes of free software > material in the past few months using the excellent MLDonkey software > (monitoring it occasionally from its web interface), and it seems to be > a good way to reach some users beyond BitTorrent users. Thats a lot of gigabytes :) wish most of the world had connections capable of that much upload. Overall though, pretty good to hear :) kk > > I am new to file sharing and feel that it will become more important to > free software--technically, politically, and socially. I look forward > to the greater use of file sharing to install and upgrade free software > systems, such as the use of debtorrent: > > http://debtorrent.alioth.debian.org/ -- Karl Goetz, Debian user / Ubuntu contributor / gNewSense contributor http://www.kgoetz.id.au
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