BitTorrent question

[Jonathan Hutchins]

On Wednesday 06 October 2004 10:50 am, Gerald Combs wrote:

> Why isn't BitTorrent (or any other P2P software for that matter) used as
> an official, sanctioned, software distribution channel along with HTTP
> and FTP?   Specifically, why aren't places like SourceForge, kernel.org,
> Gentoo, Mozilla, and OpenOffice using it?

I think that's what we've answered here:  because it doesn't work.

To be clear, while it works for some people and some torrents, in general it's 
too unreliable for a major distribution to rely on it.

If it gets to the point where it's reliable and conventional enough to be 
included in (or at least packaged for) the major distributions, that may 
change.  Already it's made great progress, particularly in the level of 
documentation available.

Still, it's something that if it doesn't work requires considerable struggle 
to fix, and most peole will continue to do as I've done, look elsewhere.