I agree, we should have magnet links alongside standard .torrent files, just for sanity sake.
2013/5/27 Jackson Doak <[email protected]> > The Xubuntu website (and all of Ubuntu) currently only uses .torrent files > for it's torrent downloads, this is an obsolete format, and nearly all > other torrent sites (both legal only and sites that don't care) use magnet > links, either solely or as well as .torrent files. > > How they work: > file: link to "trackers", then downloads from a list from the trackers. > link: uses lots of confusing algorithms to ignore the need for trackers, > so no "middle man" and nothing to host, no download as well. > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magnet_URI_scheme has more info. > both methods get similar amounts of peers > > Magnet links are easier to use than .torrent files and it is very likely > that if someone both has a torrent client and knows what xubuntu is, the > know about using magnet links. > The link may even be less confusing, because you don't download a file > that some people may think is xubuntu. > > > -- > xubuntu-devel mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/xubuntu-devel > > -- Bruno.-
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