[Cialug] Jaunty?

[David Champion]

Matthew Nuzum wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 24, 2009 at 1:21 PM, David Champion <dave at dchamp.net> wrote:
>   
>> The mirror thing is nice, if you can get people to mirror for you (and
>> Ubuntu has the momentum to be able to do that now), just seems to me
>> that if it were done right, a distributed P2P system would be lot more
>> efficient, and you wouldn't have to worry about having one mirror more
>> overloaded while other mirrors sit idle.
>>
>>     
>
> Yeah, I've thought about it often. The problem is that most people
> don't have p2p software on their pc. :-( It just doesn't work to say,
> "Want to get Ubuntu? Great, first follow these 11 steps then click the
> link below..."
>
> It's just a little bit ironic that for Linux users it really would be
> a one step process since BT software is installed by default. But
> ubuntu.com is visited mostly by Windows users so I have to cater to
> them.
>
> My mandate from the very beginning has been to make it as easy as
> possible to download Ubuntu. This translates into huge cost savings
> since the alternative is ShipIt, the free CD mailing service we run.
>
> This has me thinking... the bandwidth capacity of the US post office
> is staggering, even though the latency is high.
>
>   
I'm thinking more along the lines of having the Distribution Upgrade 
tool have a built-in P2P client. Maybe it already does?

Mandriva takes a more hard-nosed approach for their downloads - they 
used to only offer BT trackers for their .iso downloads, and if you 
couldn't do that for technical reasons, you had to contact tech support 
and they'd give you FTP access. I'm guessing that probably kept a few 
people away from using their distro.

-dc