On Tue, 2005-06-21 at 15:42 -0400, Harnish, Joseph wrote: > Hello, > > I was wondering if there has thought or discussion on utilizing the > bittorrent network when available to download packages. > > This could have the potential to help a person running a small network > of Linux boxes because he wouldn't have to setup a local repo to reap > the benefits of having the packages local (already downloaded by > another host). > > I think this could be a very beneficial plugin for yum especially if > FC5 will allow installing via yum through anaconda. Short: http://www.google.com/search?q=yum+bittorrent+site% 3Alists.dulug.duke.edu Shorter: Kludgy, scales poorly, and doesn't offer significant benefits. --icon
