[Gzz-commits] manuscripts/pointers article.rst

[Tuomas J. Lukka]

CVSROOT:        /cvsroot/gzz
Module name:    manuscripts
Branch:         
Changes by:     Tuomas J. Lukka <address@hidden>        03/11/02 14:54:51

Modified files:
        pointers       : article.rst 

Log message:
        updates. New benefit of our stuff.

CVSWeb URLs:
http://savannah.gnu.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs/gzz/manuscripts/pointers/article.rst.diff?tr1=1.81&tr2=1.82&r1=text&r2=text

Patches:
Index: manuscripts/pointers/article.rst
diff -u manuscripts/pointers/article.rst:1.81 
manuscripts/pointers/article.rst:1.82
--- manuscripts/pointers/article.rst:1.81       Sun Nov  2 14:43:00 2003
+++ manuscripts/pointers/article.rst    Sun Nov  2 14:54:51 2003
@@ -428,11 +428,21 @@
 differently.
 
 **Software / media updates.**
-Distributed apt-get / windows update
+As an example of a different application,
+pointer records could be used to implement
+a p2p version of software upgrades
+such as Debian's ``apt`` or Windows update.
+This could yield large bandwidth savings
+with the additional benefit of being able to
+(due to the simple underlying model requiring
+only the blocks)
+for example burn the new versions and their pointers to a CD
+to take to a machine that is not connected
+to a network.
 
-- obvious bandwidth savings
+XXX Onion ref?
 
-- like onion networks, but storing the version info 
+versioning
   is also distributed - no central server needed
   for distributor