to my knowledge, all clients do. vuze and transmission (the default) has capabilities for both. The extent of work is 30 minutes by one person to make a magnet link and put it on the website. Implementing this would give us one more thing to be the first to do.
On Tue, May 28, 2013 at 11:19 AM, Stephen Michael Kellat < [email protected]> wrote: > On Tue, 28 May 2013 06:43:21 +1000 > Jackson Doak <[email protected]> wrote: > > > 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. > > Jackson, > > You've made a proposition towards using magnet links. This needs to be > built upon, though. How many clients are there in the Ubuntu repositories > that handle .torrent files? How many clients are there in the Ubuntu > repositories that handle magnet links? To make a switch we have to have > sufficient clients able to handle such. The command line tool in the > package "aria2c" is the only one I have found in my cursory look tonight. > > This is a useful thought exercise to go through. A quick look at > MirrorBrain.org shows that that magic redirection back-end software still > doesn't have complete support for magnet links and it is what the openSUSE > folks use to support a major chunk of their infrastructure. It doesn't > look like the Debian crew have adopted magnet links yet and a quick check > at Mageia shows they've not adopted such either. > > Just because it is old doesn't mean it doesn't work. After all, the world > continues to have emacs roaming around. The two key things that would need > to be addressed would be client availability and infrastructure/costs > benefits that might be derived from use. > > How would you address those two issues? > > Stephen Michael Kellat > > >
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