[ubuntu-uk] Peer to peer apt

[Alan Pope]

Hi Samuel,

On 14 May 2010 13:18, Samuel Toogood <sam_toogood at athsoc.org.uk> wrote:
> I recently had an idea for improving ubuntu: Wouldn't it be good if packages
> could be distributed in a peer to peer manner, as .isos can be?

Unsurprisingly you're not the first person to think this is a good
idea. There are a few projects to achieve this. Jorge Castro has
blogged about a few of them.

http://castrojo.wordpress.com/2010/02/28/zeroconfing-squid-deb-proxy/

Cheers,
Al.