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Now that I think about it I wonder why we don't see it being used to distribute packages for linux distros. Seems more flexible than the current mirror system.
by gpm 4y ago
Now that I think about it I wonder why we don't see it being used to distribute packages for linux distros. Seems more flexible than the current mirror system.
- Kwpolska 4y agoMore overhead, torrents being blocked or disliked because of their association with piracy, difficulty to distribute updated versions of files (package indexes)?
- flangola7 4y agoGame consoles use torrent protocols to distribute game updates.
- Kwpolska 4y agoModern AAA games have hundreds of GBs worth of content, and a game is a single unified package. Linux distros have tens of thousands of packages, many of them in less than a MB in size, with different update frequencies and different users. You would need to generate massive amounts of torrents.