Bittorent distribution

[maplesugarlover]

Now that i've looked at it , it seems like Deluge or transmission would be good for the pandora. Only included shareza because I wanted a gnutella client and frostwire is slooooow.

 

[Yannick]

Quick Summary:


There is a market for a torrent site with legal torrents for the Pandora


We should probably moderate user content on such a site for license violations


It would contain Pandora ready collections of pnd's , preferably 1GB uncompressed in size, so you only need to copy this to the root of your SD


Some sort of naming scheme for the hoarders with 64GB SD cards would be very useful


Those torrents would be set-up in game categories:

• Platform
  
• Shooter
  
• Puzzle
  
• mods for game-engines (Q3 engine, without ID's paks, but community pak files for example)
  
• Craig's card
  
• ...
  

Preferably the file layout is setup so torrent updates do not need to download the entire new image (weekly/monthly updates)


so what's missing?


apparently nobody ported a torrent client to PND yet, Deluge and Transmission should both be available


There's obviously no such site yet, I am not in a position to start one in the foreseeable future, but I do volunteer to be Mod/Packager/License nazi, If somebody would set such a site up and the bold parts of this post are met. I personally don't care if you make some money with ads but no porn please


Does this sound reasonable to anyone?

 

[mindlord]

A Starter SD card is all fine and dandy, and I support this idea, but for regular daily updates it's just silly.


Seriously, the Pandora needs a normal repository that also serves up PNDs. Check off the applications you want, click install. Wait for download. Play. Several days later start package manager click update - only download the PND's that updated.


Bittorent would be like using a 2 ton wrecking ball to hammer a nail.

 

[maplesugarlover]

Yannick , I am really liking your idea: )

 

[Yannick]

I am currently idling in #torrentora @ freenode IRC


in case somebody wants a more real-time discussion about this, negative views need not apply


Lets see if we can bring the pieces together

 

[mindlord]

Meh. It would be nice if the Twitter feed for the appstore contained links to the app itself. That way when an update notification came through you could download it directly from the twitter feed. Possibly even that could be automated in such a way that the Pandora could update itself.