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Originally posted by boot View Post
Lol, one seed and a ton of peers. Ummm, think I'll wait until it shows up on my private tracker.
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Originally posted by mrugiero View PostBecause some newbies have the idea torrent == virus, is my guess.
Also, some total suckers might fall for a fake.
Either way, what they really should've done is used Metalink's support for transparent HTTP negotiation to serve up a Metalink file to compatible download managers (eg. KGet). (Basically, what Novell does with their OpenSUSE ISO download links.)
Since Metalink supports listing torrents as mirrors, that can be combined with a web-seeded, trackerless torrent to transparently switch anyone with a compatible download manager over to BitTorrent-backed download. (BurnBit lets anyone easily add this part to their downloads as long as their HTTP server allows resuming.)
Also, since Metalink files can embed hashes (or even PGP signatures), the download manager can auomatically do hash verification on the resulting file, regardless of what mix of mirrors it was downloaded from.
With that kind of infrastructure, it's easy to retrofit the hoster's site and it's transparent and automatic improvement for users with compatible download managers:
1. Initial seeding of the torrent swarm can be done by their usual CDN.
2. Download managers which support Metalink and BitTorrent will receive a Metalink file, automatically use BitTorrent as a scalable CDN, and verify the hash.
3. Download managers which just support Metalink will receive a Metalink file, use the HTTP CDN, and verify the hash.
4. Download managers which don't support Metalink can be served a direct link to the file as usual by using HTTP header-based negotiation.
For extra reliability, they could also include a Content-MD5 header so that download managers which don't do Metalink still have an option for automatically verifying completed downloads.
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Originally posted by sarmad View PostWhat do you mean by "Gnome is hiding behind Steam"? Are you talking here about the entire Gnome Shell, or just some Gnome packages needed by the Steam client?
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