> there's too much demand for #! for regular hosting to be viable
That is exactly why sourceforge and other (free) mirror services were created...
In fact there are Linux ISO installers being hosted on sourceforge right now.
> I feel bad for you if you work in a place where the powers that be are fine with you downloading a distro via HTTP or FTP but not via Bittorrent.
That is a loaded comment - and I'm not really sure if you are trolling but...
The company did have public mirrors for the popular distros so that wasn't an issue. FTP access was restricted.
However, I would be VERY surprised if bittorrent is allowed any serious company. I worked at a place where new management wanted to open up everything - with strong recommendation from the netadmins to not do that. The netadmins were ignored, forced to open up everything and people started bittorrenting copyrighted material and got letters from MPAA/RIAA (which was rather funny because everything was logged on the firewall so you could see who was doing it...).
I won't argue that bittorrent can be used for good things, however, due to the negative stigma and general stupidity of people most sane places would block it. Ignoring the fact that it's a bandwidth suck...
I guess it depends on the work place. I work at an enterprise (>1000) sized corporation and I've torrented stuff without hearing about it. We also use bittorrent internally to help bring servers online.
That is exactly why sourceforge and other (free) mirror services were created... In fact there are Linux ISO installers being hosted on sourceforge right now.
> I feel bad for you if you work in a place where the powers that be are fine with you downloading a distro via HTTP or FTP but not via Bittorrent.
That is a loaded comment - and I'm not really sure if you are trolling but...
The company did have public mirrors for the popular distros so that wasn't an issue. FTP access was restricted.
However, I would be VERY surprised if bittorrent is allowed any serious company. I worked at a place where new management wanted to open up everything - with strong recommendation from the netadmins to not do that. The netadmins were ignored, forced to open up everything and people started bittorrenting copyrighted material and got letters from MPAA/RIAA (which was rather funny because everything was logged on the firewall so you could see who was doing it...).
I won't argue that bittorrent can be used for good things, however, due to the negative stigma and general stupidity of people most sane places would block it. Ignoring the fact that it's a bandwidth suck...