indolence logAnthony Towns' blog.Torrenting the Debian Archive- May 9, 2007 Continuing the theme from my previous post &8211; the first and fundamental thing any distro needs to have, and thus the first and fundamental thing to think about disintermediating, is some way of distributing software. That might be burning CDs and sending them out to resellers or OEMs, or having your stuff available for download, whether by putting it up on your own server, hosting it via a dedicated high-reliability provider like akamai, or maintaining a network of mirror sites and keeping..http://azure.humbug.org.au/~aj/blog/2007/05/10#2007-05-10-debtorrent A conversation with jdub- May 2, 2007 A couple of months ago I was sitting in a north Sydney pub cradling a beer with the ineluctable jdub, the decidedly unparsimonious rusty and (if I&8217;m accurately remembering who&8217;d left and who hadn&8217;t by this point) the irremediable mrd. As you might imagine, these sort of conditions are a perfect breeding ground for a particular type of discussion, and with Jeff&8217;s departure from Canonical not that long beforehand accompanied by the then ongoing DPL elections, talk turned to...http://azure.humbug.org.au/~aj/blog/2007/05/03#2007-05-03-distributions-2.0 |