On 10/05/2020 18:36, Colin Finck wrote:
I haven't seen torrents
widely used for open source software distribution for at least a
decade.
Torrents are common from what I have seen. Offhand, I can think of
Debian <https://www.debian.org/distrib/>, Ubuntu
<https://ubuntu.com/download/alternative-downloads#bittorrents>
and Mint <https://linuxmint.com/edition.php?id=274> who all
offer official torrents.
I've been doing quite a bit of downloading of open source operating
systems recently since I've been testing various OSs and I have to
say that I have commonly found official torrents to be faster
overall than most mirrors.
If you have a torrent client handy (as a random example the Brave
browser includes a torrent client) then torrents can be as easy to
use as HTTP download links.
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Mark Rousell