Software Repository Mirrors may be a good start for IPFS

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Ubuntu archive on top of IPFS

Hello! Last week on the Costa Rican hackerspace we started a project to serve the ubuntu archive on top of IPFS. The idea is that it should be faster to download deb packages from an IPFS node that is closer than the closest mirror of the archive. For example, in Costa Rica there is only one mirror, hosted at the university in the middle of the country. On the jaquerespeis there are at least 50 Ubuntu users spread on different geographic areas. If we get all of them to use the ipfs mirror, we …