John Jason Jordan wrote: > Jigdo works in a completely different way but is almost certainly more > reliable than bittorrent, probably just as fast, and every bit as > bandwidth efficient. > > Go on - give it a try. You know you want to. =O)
*clapping* jigdo is a fantastic tool. Any doubts you have should be answered after you read the jigdo page and understand how it works ( http://atterer.net/jigdo/#how). It basically downloads hundreds (or thousands) of tiny little file chunks from debian mirrors all over the place (via the terminal of course, so super efficient) - and every time for me, it's my own internet connection that is the speed limiter rather than the debian mirrors. I downloaded the stable 5.0 DVD 1 .iso with jigdo and md5 checksum was perfect; then I re-ran jigdo to upgrade the dvd .iso image to 5.0.2 and it's so smart it knows which files to update and takes very little time. Think about the bandwidth savings we are getting by using jigdo to update our .iso's instead of re-downloading full image files again and the traffic savings on the debian servers. Just wanted to give a "shout out" to anyone involved in creating jigdo. Love it. Mark
