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I see only one problem with this. My college blocks all P2P file |
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sharing clients are therefore this would prevent me from using Gentoo. |
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This would not make me happy as Gentoo is the best distro I have found |
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and I would like to continue using it. |
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On Tue, 2002-04-09 at 16:17, Vik Olliver wrote: |
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> Now that Gnunet has settled down: |
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> |
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> http://gecko.cs.purdue.edu/gnet/ |
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> |
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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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> |
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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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> |
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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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> |
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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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> |
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> Regards, |
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> |
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> Vik Olliver |
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