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Re: Debian ISOs available for very fast download



On Thu,20.May.10, 21:54:22, David Voisin wrote:
> 
> The platform is a mix between central server and pear to pear. There
> are various machines on the web that we actually own (but this could
> be extended to any computer willing to share on internet) that
> contain the various ISO blocks, and a central server that knows
> where every block is stored.
> The difference with bittorrent is that you do not have the
> communication between the seeds which consume your bandwith, you do
> not share your blocks (no upload) and you do not depend on the seeds
> disponibility.
> The ISOs proposed are always available, and if we need new servers
> it is easy to add new servers.

Sounds like a distributed jigdo ;)

Regards,
Andrei
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