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• Launchpad entry: dijjer-iso-downloads

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Summary

Using Dijjer to help host Ubuntu CD iso downloads could dramatically reduce bandwidth expenses.

Rationale

Dijjer is far easier to use than Bittorrent and is a superior technology for this sort of distribution.

Dijjer has the following advantages:

• Downloads happen in your browser.
• Works for Windows, Mac, and Linux.
• The Dijjer source code is free, open source, and available to everyone.

• Gets through firewalls using NAT traversal, so can be used by non-technical users - unlike Bittorrent.

• Bittorrent is forbidden by many ISPs and organisations. Dijjer is not.

More information is available here: http://dijjer.org/wiki/FrequentlyAskedQuestions

I used Dijjer to download the Kororaa live CD and it worked perfectly.

Use cases

1. Non technical Windows user trys to download ISO from Ubuntu.com

2. Downloads dijjer client

3. Clicks Ubuntu ISO download link

4. Shares his upload bandwidth in a peer-to-peer connection with other other dijjer downloaders.

Scope

Reducing bandwidth costs in distributing Ubuntu online.

Design

N/A

Implementation

Trivial. Simply change the download links for Ubuntu ISOs.

normal link: http://mysite.com/ubuntuedgy.iso

dijjer link: http://dijjer.org/get/http://mysite.com/ubuntuedgy.iso

Code

N/A

Data preservation and migration

N/A

Unresolved issues

None

BoF agenda and discussion

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