On Fri, 27 Jan 2012 17:50:31 +0000 Frank Murphy <frankly3d@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On 27/01/12 17:35, Rahul Sundaram wrote: > > On 01/27/2012 12:45 AM, Stephen John Smoogen wrote: > > > >> > >> Solutions: > >> 1) Fedora uses closed sourced torrent server for ipv6 and other > >> options. 2) We publish the torrent 'seeds' and signatures for > >> other sites and users to set up. > > What about azureus, it's in Fedora? it's not in EPEL (we use RHEL for our servers). it's java. We have 0 other deployed java applications, so this would be a very large ramp up for support and management. it's a gui application, making it difficult or impossible to manage remotely. > > What are other major distributions using? > > > > Rahul > > > > Most use torrents, along with direct download. > But some use 3rd Party for to host their *torrent files > Scientific Linux: > http://www.scientificlinux.org/download/torrents yeah, this was an option I listed... we could produce the torrent files and have some other place seed/track them. > CentOS: you have to traverse the mirror sites to find the *.torrent > files http://ftp.heanet.ie/pub/centos/6.2/isos/i386/ > > Ubuntu: has torrents on their "alternate doownloads" > http://www.ubuntu.com/download/ubuntu/alternative-download From a quick look: ubuntu and debian both use: tracker version: T-0.3.18 (BitTornado) It's a MIT licenced fork of bittorrent I think. It's not packaged for Fedora/EPEL. Looks like the last update on it was 2+ years ago upstream. opensuse I can't really tell. kevin
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