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Wow...
by Mark Watson on Friday 16/Sep/2005, @04:32
Wow. It looks like a really neat idea. It could use a little polishing, for example having multiple sites to look for the download for an app. That way if one is down there wont be any problems with downloading as it will just use another one. Great job.

Take that, linspire....

Mark
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Re: Wow...
by a.c. on Friday 16/Sep/2005, @08:28
Perhaps instead of multiple sites, now is the time to move to an easy torrent set-up for doing this kind of klik installer. have a script (or a set of scripts) that builds the klik, the torrent, and an rss. Likewise, it should also handle the update issue. Perhaps, when you load the klik on your system, an rss url is included that can be loaded into a local update app to track the what and where. That way, if an update does occur your system finds out about it.
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  • Re: Wow...
    by paranoid user on Saturday 17/Sep/2005, @09:40
    Do you _really_ want to run software from random torrent peers?
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      by uddw on Saturday 17/Sep/2005, @10:23
      This shouldn't matter, as long as the source of the .torrent file is trustworthy. In theory at least. But IIRC bittorrent uses md4 (not md5 or sha1) checksums, so maybe it's really not as tamper-proof as it could be.
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Re: Wow...
by Fab on Friday 16/Sep/2005, @11:01
why are you addressing Linspire there?

Fab
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  • Re: Wow...
    by superstoned on Friday 16/Sep/2005, @15:32
    yeah, there is no reason why it won't work in linspire... on the other hand, linspire has one-click, too - so i guess that is what he wanted to say :D
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