ipfs links to Haiku releases

[kallisti5]

Haiku R1Beta1 has been uploaded to ipfs.

/ # ipfs add -w /export/haiku-r1beta1-x86_64-anyboot.zip                                                                                                    
added QmWAHucGiatLTWY6LNxexpjSzVeosLZaT8G396RLYzp74r haiku-r1beta1-x86_64-anyboot.zip                                                                       
added QmRYyJA1S3EiCS5NG5FGRCXwGLzu8VCADREAJmZbL5j4qs                                                                                                        

/ # ipfs add -w /export/haiku-r1beta1-x86_gcc2_hybrid-anyboot.zip                                                                                           
added Qmejz9ahT1agELvqBn4oM35ACaDaWFksjo4nf4AEcoUZdy haiku-r1beta1-x86_gcc2_hybrid-anyboot.zip                                                              
added QmUyJJhfhevw5M93AvLYysh7kQRkrHGcmUVCN9L11RDYSs                                                                                                        

These can be linked to directly via:

• Haiku R1Beta1 x86_64
  • ipfs://QmRYyJA1S3EiCS5NG5FGRCXwGLzu8VCADREAJmZbL5j4qs
• Haiku R1/Beta1 x86_gcc2_hybrid:
  • ipfs://QmUyJJhfhevw5M93AvLYysh7kQRkrHGcmUVCN9L11RDYSs

They can also be linked to via public gateways (​https://ipfs.github.io/public-gateway-checker/) such as:

• Haiku R1Beta1 x86_64
  • ​http://ipfs.io/ipfs/QmRYyJA1S3EiCS5NG5FGRCXwGLzu8VCADREAJmZbL5j4qs
  • ​http://cloudflare-ipfs.com/ipfs/QmRYyJA1S3EiCS5NG5FGRCXwGLzu8VCADREAJmZbL5j4qs
  • ​http://dweb.link/ipfs/QmRYyJA1S3EiCS5NG5FGRCXwGLzu8VCADREAJmZbL5j4qs
• Haiku R1/Beta1 x86_gcc2_hybrid:
  • ​http://ipfs.io/ipfs/QmUyJJhfhevw5M93AvLYysh7kQRkrHGcmUVCN9L11RDYSs
  • ​http://cloudflare-ipfs.com/ipfs/QmUyJJhfhevw5M93AvLYysh7kQRkrHGcmUVCN9L11RDYSs
  • ​http://dweb.link/ipfs/QmUyJJhfhevw5M93AvLYysh7kQRkrHGcmUVCN9L11RDYSs

[kallisti5]

This is less of a "todo" and more of a discuss. These ipfs links are p2p, and slightly easier to use than things like bittorrent.

I'm running an ipfs server on my NAS I uploaded these from... really hope all the bandwidth doesn't come from only my NAS though :-| Needs more investigation.

[kallisti5]

Ok, so IPFS suffers the same issue as bittorrent without seeders. Linking to public gateways would direct everyone to my nas.

so, linking to ipfs:// ... would be better because it would encourage people to run the IPFS client, and cache a copy locally to "seed"

​https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Uj6uR3fp-U

[pulkomandy]

I'm not sure I understand why this would be simpler than bittorrent. Can't hurt us to share the links, I guess. May create problems for your NAS if no one else is seeding, however.

[kallisti5]

True. I mention easier than bittorrent because it comes with a bunch of options for running local ipfs nodes which would seed haiku once downloaded.

• Browser Extensions:
  • ​https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/ipfs-companion
  • ​https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/ipfs-companion/nibjojkomfdiaoajekhjakgkdhaomnch
  • brave://settings/extensions in Brave

There's also ipns which means we could link to artifacts via TXT dns records: ​https://docs.ipfs.io/guides/concepts/ipns/

There's also a huge API behind it where people deploy websites like wikipedia and can navigate it p2p.

​https://cloudflare-ipfs.com/ipfs/QmXoypizjW3WknFiJnKLwHCnL72vedxjQkDDP1mXWo6uco/wiki/

I'm still trying to figure out if it's "the most innovative thing ever" or "way over complicated" :-)

​https://awesome.ipfs.io/

[kallisti5]

I should mention here that I setup ​https://ipfs.haiku-os.org which is a direct link to Haiku R1B2 hosted on IPFS going through the free cloudflare ipfs gateway.

I pinned the relevant hashes at pinata.cloud so there is some CDN backing to them. Seems to be working fine, so closing this one.

I have the Haikuports repos mirrored on IPFS as well, but not willing to pin 65GiB at pinata.cloud given the cost and some limitations I ran into.

Closing this one with the above info.

We *might* be able to host haiku-os.org on IPFS and get away from netlify (it's just a static site)... but waddlesplash hates that idea so leaving it alone for now :-)