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Updating Ubuntu by BitTorrent (kind of)
bantermarket.com — Ubuntu is the single most popular distribution of Linux currently available and it released a major upgrade today, hours ago. Yet, I'm downloading my update at nearly 270kb/s from the publicly available, free servers. How is this at all possible given the demand that major launches put on the infrastructure of open source projects?
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