2011/1/12 Michael Scherer <[email protected]>: > Le mardi 11 janvier 2011 à 20:03 +0100, Marcello Anni a écrit : >> hi all, >> i have one question (maybe it can be a proposal): is it possible to implement >> the torrent protocol to faster download the updates of the distro? it could >> be >> an interesting features for the coming Mageia releases > > I think the issue of faster download could be simply taken care by > having more mirror, or faster one. > > I had under the impression that some ISP throttle down bittorrent, and > that it may not be very nat and firewall friendly..
aria2 amongst others has bittorrent support though, so metalinks with ftp/http/++ mirrors together with torrents could help combine them all together. :) -- Regards, Per Øyvind
