Re: kernel? 2.4.x vs 2.6.x

[Michael Loftis <mloftis@wgops.com>]

--On Thursday, February 03, 2005 21:54 -0600 "Colin J. Ingram" 
<cjingram@wisc.edu> wrote:


> I actually made a mistake with that comment.  I actually used jigdo.  It
> was 2-3 times slower then fetching the images directly.  In any case, if
> the point is to relieve stress on Debian servers/mirrors then why should
> I have to share files in order to get a fast download.  Especially for
> those who are only trying to get the Debian images for installation.  I
> had no other for bittorrent(or jigdo for that matter) but I used the
> later of them because I thought it was a good idea.  However, in
> practice it didn't work out to well.  I guess my point is: if Debian
> wants people to use alternative means of downloading images, those means
> should be as easy and as fast as downloading the images directly through
> ftp/http.

jigdo is a direct download.  jigdo is nothing at all like bittorrent. 
jigdo retrieves the parts and assembles an image based off a template. 
this way the mirrors don't have to carry gigs and gigs of extra, redundant, 
data.  also when you go to build a new release, you can feed the files from 
your old release to jigdo, and it can re-use them (off CD even) where they 
match.  it can, and does, often improve the time ti takes.  however, 
bittorrent is still usually faster.