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NixOS 23.11 released
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this post was submitted on 30 Nov 2023
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No torrent files for NixOS images?
It doesn't really make sense to use torrents here. We've got a commercial CDN serving these files for us and they change basically every day or so.
Bittorrent has lots of benefits for the user:
Sorry that I asked. Seems that you feel very offensed by my question.
You can stop/resume downloads via HTTP too. That's up to the client to implement.
Again, this is a commercial CDN. Speed is practically infinite. Without the rather long ramp-up time too.
That sounds like a micro-optimisation for an edge-case.
Not really necessary for an installer ISO downloaded via HTTPS.
???
As mentioned, one of the reasons torrents don't make sense here is that the ISOs change quite frequently. I don't have exact numbers here but there's nothing preventing them from changing every single day. The current ISO is only two days old.
Every seeder would have to discard the old ISO and re-download an entirely new ISO every few days or so.
Given that we need the CDN anyways, torrents just simply don't make sense.