I have no idea if this works or not but it seems like it should. I've added Mozilla 1.1 Beta binaries to a folder I share on the Gnutella network. You should be able to access this network, and my files on it, by installing one of the many free Gnutella P2P clients. I don't have much experience with any of these but I've tried a dozen windows clients, a couple of mac clients and one linux client and right now I recommend Shareaza for Windows users, the still in beta Acquisition for OS X, and LimeWire on Linux.
The files I've made available for sharing are automatically hashed using the Secure Hash Algorithm, a w3c Digital Signature Iniative. I've [posted links to the files below using a URI in the format of GNUTELLA://SHA1:<the file's hash>.
In theory you should be able to click on the links below and that would start up your P2P client, search out and download the file. I'm new to this whole P2P world and as of this posting I'm the only one sharing these files so don't expect much but I think that this could be a potential distribution mechanism for open source software and this is my first stab at seeing if it could work.
If anyone reading this knows a lot about Gnutella, hashing, directories like Bitzi or anything else that might help me pursue P2P file sharing for Open Souce binaries please email me at asa@mozilla.org with any help (or smack me down for a silly idea that would never work).
mozilla-i686-pc-linux-gnu-1.1b-sea.tar.gz
mozilla-win32-1.1b-installer.exe
mozilla-mac-11b-full.bin
mozilla-macosX-11b.smi.bin
