Bit Torrent, Updating Linux

Fri Jul 10 18:57:47 UTC 2009

On Thu, Jul 09, 2009 at 04:03:28PM -0700, Aviss,Tyler wrote:
> Due to various issues mentioned by others, iIm not sure it would be  
> suitable for Internet distribution, but it could be useful in a LAN or  
> private network for updating a lit of machines at once.

Well for that using multicast from the server to all the clients would
be even better.  Either way, the http transfer will still outperform
bittorrent.

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