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revision 1.81 by tjl, Sun Nov 2 19:43:00 2003 UTC revision 1.82 by tjl, Sun Nov 2 19:54:51 2003 UTC
# Line 428  as the rest of the file-shared web, simp Line 428  as the rest of the file-shared web, simp
428  differently.  differently.
429    
430  **Software / media updates.**  **Software / media updates.**
431  Distributed apt-get / windows update  As an example of a different application,
432    pointer records could be used to implement
433    a p2p version of software upgrades
434    such as Debian's ``apt`` or Windows update.
435    This could yield large bandwidth savings
436    with the additional benefit of being able to
437    (due to the simple underlying model requiring
438    only the blocks)
439    for example burn the new versions and their pointers to a CD
440    to take to a machine that is not connected
441    to a network.
442    
443  - obvious bandwidth savings  XXX Onion ref?
444    
445  - like onion networks, but storing the version info  versioning
446    is also distributed - no central server needed    is also distributed - no central server needed
447    for distributor    for distributor
448    

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