colourlesspony@pawb.social to No Stupid Questions@lemmy.world · 3 months agoIs there a practical reason a lot of FOSS project don't offer torrent downloads or is it just a stigma thing?message-squaremessage-square18linkfedilinkarrow-up139arrow-down10
arrow-up139arrow-down1message-squareIs there a practical reason a lot of FOSS project don't offer torrent downloads or is it just a stigma thing?colourlesspony@pawb.social to No Stupid Questions@lemmy.world · 3 months agomessage-square18linkfedilink
minus-squareozymandias117@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up7·3 months agoWindows uses them by default for updates (they call it “Delivery Optimization”) apt-p2p exists, but it’s not installed by default, so is unlikely to have enough peers to be useful
minus-squareaubeynarf@lemmynsfw.comlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·3 months agoah, so Distribution bandwith naturally matching number of users requesting. I’m not sure if we are as bandwith constrained anymore
Windows uses them by default for updates (they call it “Delivery Optimization”)
apt-p2p exists, but it’s not installed by default, so is unlikely to have enough peers to be useful
ah, so Distribution bandwith naturally matching number of users requesting.
I’m not sure if we are as bandwith constrained anymore