Gx: A package management tool built around IPFS

Re:Gx: A package management tool built around IPFS by badsock on Wednesday March 23, 2016 @05:08PM (#11348260)

Not at all. It's more like a giant bittorrent full of everyone's git repos.

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Re:Gx: A package management tool built around IPFS by oolongCat on Wednesday March 23, 2016 @05:13PM (#11348299)

Any place where I could read a good introduction to IPFS ?

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Re:Gx: A package management tool built around IPFS by whyrusleeping on Wednesday March 23, 2016 @05:18PM (#11348333)

I would start at our webpage here: https://ipfs.io/

Though admittedly it needs work. If youre the video watching type, the stanford talk on that page is very good (i recommend setting the speed to 1.5 or so).

Beyond that, come check out our git repos: ipfs whitepaper and general protocol discussion: https://github.com/ipfs/ipfs go-ipfs codebase: https://github.com/ipfs/go-ipfs And the FAQ: https://github.com/ipfs/faq

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Re:Gx: A package management tool built around IPFS by noffle on Wednesday March 23, 2016 @05:21PM (#11348367)

There's also a (very WIP) "IPFS Textbook": https://github.com/RichardLitt/ipfs-textbook/

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Re:Gx: A package management tool built around IPFS by Touche on Wednesday March 23, 2016 @05:36PM (#11348461)

Ok, so my question still stands, does this mean I will be eventually downloading the entire IPFS network onto my computer? What is the solution to that problem?

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Re:Gx: A package management tool built around IPFS by joeflow on Wednesday March 23, 2016 @05:46PM (#11348534)

Currently no, you only download content you have requested, and you can remove any content you have not pinned to hold onto via a garbage collection command. When bitswap is more mature you may get more content on your system, but that will probably be configurable.

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