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submitted 10 months ago by moreeni@lemm.ee to c/linux@lemmy.ml

Just had this idea pop up in my mind. Instead of relying on volunteers mirroring package repositories all around the world, why not utilise BitTorrent protocol to move at the very least some some load unto the users and thus increase download speeds as well as decrease latency?

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[-] delirious_owl@discuss.online 45 points 10 months ago

What are you talking about? All that torrent traffic that my ISP sees is definitely Linux ISOs.

Just doing my part

[-] moreeni@lemm.ee 13 points 10 months ago

Whatever I'm talking about is not Linux ISOs.

[-] walden@sub.wetshaving.social 6 points 10 months ago
[-] moreeni@lemm.ee 8 points 10 months ago

They were joking about whole other thing. My topic has nothing to do with distro ISOs, I was talking about packages

[-] walden@sub.wetshaving.social 2 points 10 months ago

A "joke" often references material that is related, but not the same.

[-] moreeni@lemm.ee 6 points 10 months ago

Uhhh no, judging by the others, people definitely seem to have problem with confusing what I was talking about exactly

[-] walden@sub.wetshaving.social 4 points 10 months ago
[-] moreeni@lemm.ee 5 points 10 months ago

Dude, I get their joke, but Linux ISOs are irrelevant to the conversation. That's what I wanted to point out, because many people get confused and think I was talking about them specifically

[-] luciferofastora@lemmy.zip 1 points 10 months ago

I don't think people were confused so much as bending the point a little to make a joke topical. It's both "downloading Linux stuff".

[-] Goun@lemmy.ml 2 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Ohhhh I thought we were talking about ISOs this whole time! We love these ISOs, don't we?

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