On Jul 14, 2010, at 22:06, Auke Kok wrote:
> On 07/14/10 06:44, Alex Butum wrote:
>> 1) Why Meego Project does not provide alternative downloads by
>> Bittorrent protocol ? The way to download Meego now is *amazingly
>> SLOW* and unreliable; using BitTorrent protocol would be better for
>> data integrity and speed.
>
> We have discussed using alternate methods, including frontend hosting on
> akamai/amazon cloud (like we do now for official releases) and using
> bittorrent.
I would like to ask that we not use Akamai and Amazon EC2. My reasons are
technical and strategic;
1. Akamai and Amazon use proprietary technology which conflicts with
Free Software practices
2. Akamai and Amazon have latency issues, bandwidth issues and in
general are not as good as other solutions
There is an excellent tool called MirrorBrain which is widely used, hooks into
the OBS, works really well, can trivially be extended both with new mirrors and
with new code, costs significantly less that Akamai, and has an attractive
license. Why not consider using that?
Jeremiah
_______________________________________________
MeeGo-dev mailing list
[email protected]
http://lists.meego.com/listinfo/meego-dev
