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Originally posted by Brian the Fist
As for this BitTorrent thingy, it sounds like a neat idea, however, my 'daemon' software already accomplishes this task. All a 'mirror' is is someone running my daemon with it set to grab all OSes and which I have entered in the master list of mirrors (on our web server).
The reason you need mirrors is to increase the total bandwidth available so everyone can download the files at a reasonable pace. Your deamon software only works if people sign up to be mirrors and run your daemon software. They need to have large pipes to do this.