On 07/15/10 03:01, Jeremiah Foster wrote:

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?


excellent suggestion. I'll post this around for consideration.

thanks

Auke
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