On Tue, May 13, 2003 at 10:20:36AM -0700, Ian Clarke wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > > OK my question why should I use freenet over other > > peer to peer networks?? > > Well, firstly we already have a HTTP interface, which has already been > shown to play nice with apt-get (over a year ago some people > experimented with this).
In theory, however for acceptable performance, you will need to rewrite the apt-get backend to use sufficient connections and to know about splitfiles. > > Secondly, you can distribute files in a totally decentralized manner, > and Freenet has been proven to be effective in distributing large files > using "Forward Error Correction". This is a good point. > > Thirdly, Freenet has built-in signing of data (we call this mechanism > "subspaces" or SubSpaceKeys: SSKs). My recommendation would be to include the CHK in the Packages file. > > Forthly, Freenet adaptively caches data according to demand - which > gives it better "ramp-up" capabilities than other P2P networks. > > Ian. > > - -- > Ian Clarke ian at locut.us > Coordinator, The Freenet Project http://freenetproject.org/ > Founder, Locutus http://locut.us/ > Personal Homepage http://locut.us/ian/ > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (GNU/Linux) > Comment: Debian :: The Universal Operating System > > iD8DBQE+wSlkQtgxRWSmsqwRAldcAJ4qLMyKohrVMStcMwMQJy0+H3dpFwCfcqB1 > Lg74qWCueO7AcmpBVBMjAlg= > =3s81 > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > _______________________________________________ > devl mailing list > devl at freenetproject.org > http://hawk.freenetproject.org:8080/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/devl _______________________________________________ devl mailing list devl at freenetproject.org http://hawk.freenetproject.org:8080/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/devl
