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On July 18, 2002 10:57 am, Jean-Michel Smith wrote: |
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> On Thursday 18 July 2002 09:36 am, Michael Cummings wrote: |
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> > I just wanted to repeat, I meant absolutely no offense or disrespect |
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> > with this posting, turn the flame guns off, yada yada yada. I think the |
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> > "technology"/technique posted about is interesting, could be useful, |
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> > just IMHO binaries for the gentoo packages goes against why something |
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> > like gentoo is so great... |
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> |
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> While I have absolutely no interest in precompiled binaries for Gentoo, I |
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> do think that using some kind of p2p approach, like FreeNet for example, as |
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> a way of distributing tarballs and perhaps even portage trees, would be |
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> very cool. I've had 'emerge sync's fail on more than one occasion because |
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> the round robin rsync server I connect to happens to have its connections |
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> maxed out. |
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> One of the real strengths of FreeNet is that the more popular something |
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> becomes, the more available it becomes, rather than the opposite as is the |
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> case with more traditional client-server designs (which http and ftp |
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> essentially are). |
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Hmm, interesting, is there others? |
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Yannick Koehler |
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