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?

  • walden
    71·
    4 months ago

    I think they were joking.

    • moreeniOP
      82·
      4 months ago

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

      • walden
        31·
        4 months ago

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

        • moreeniOP
          63·
          4 months ago

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

            • moreeniOP
              53·
              4 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
                10·
                4 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
        21·
        4 months ago4 months ago

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