colourlesspony@pawb.social to No Stupid Questions@lemmy.world · 3 days agoIs there a practical reason a lot of FOSS project don't offer torrent downloads or is it just a stigma thing?message-squaremessage-square18fedilinkarrow-up137arrow-down10
arrow-up137arrow-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 days agomessage-square18fedilink
minus-squareaubeynarf@lemmynsfw.comlinkfedilinkarrow-up22arrow-down1·3 days agoTorrents have little to offer when you aren’t pirating bulky media files. And don’t track frequent release versions, code repos, or integrate with distribution packaging ecosystems. Is there any practical reason they would offer torrent downloads?
minus-squareozymandias117@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up7·3 days 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-up2·3 days agoah, so Distribution bandwith naturally matching number of users requesting. I’m not sure if we are as bandwith constrained anymore
Torrents have little to offer when you aren’t pirating bulky media files. And don’t track frequent release versions, code repos, or integrate with distribution packaging ecosystems.
Is there any practical reason they would offer torrent downloads?
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