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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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While I have absolutely no interest in precompiled binaries for Gentoo, I do |
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think that using some kind of p2p approach, like FreeNet for example, as a |
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way of distributing tarballs and perhaps even portage trees, would be very |
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cool. I've had 'emerge sync's fail on more than one occasion because the |
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round robin rsync server I connect to happens to have its connections maxed |
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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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Jean. |
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