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Now that Gnunet has settled down: |
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http://gecko.cs.purdue.edu/gnet/ |
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Might it be possible to use Gnunet to distribute the source tarballs |
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among Gentoo installations? |
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As most users will tend to have their tarballs stored locally and are |
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very likely to have a network connection, Gentoo is an ideal |
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distribution for P2P updating - provided that some trusted GPG signature |
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(or MD5 at a pinch) can be used to verify the integrity of the source. |
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Implementing this system frees Gentoo and all its applications from the |
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burden and expense of having to maintain a central source repository |
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with high bandwidth, allowing the distribution to grow freely at its own |
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pace. Fixes will percolate through automatically, software that is |
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banned in backward parts of the world will come through via untraceable |
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routes, and the caching will ensure that the file requests are |
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distributed evenly. |
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I regret that I am already fully comitted (possibly over-comitted) to |
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charitable projects already, but I believe this idea should be aired to |
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those willing and able to implement it. |
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Regards, |
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Vik Olliver |
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