Date: Sat, 24 Sep 2005 10:10:21 -0700 (PDT) From: "Jeremy C. Reed" <reed@reedmedia.net> To: Lowell Gilbert <freebsd-chat-local@be-well.ilk.org> Cc: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: torrents for FreeBSD ISOs? Message-ID: <Pine.NEB.4.62.0509241003320.26137@pilchuck.reedmedia.net> In-Reply-To: <44d5my1l9f.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> References: <Pine.NEB.4.62.0509231424210.26137@pilchuck.reedmedia.net> <44d5my1l9f.fsf@be-well.ilk.org>
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On Sat, 24 Sep 2005, Lowell Gilbert wrote: >> Are there any active torrents for FreeBSD ISOs? >> >> I used torrent file as found via FreeBSD 5.4 announcement. But for >> over 30 minutes ctorrent timed out attempting to retrieve it. >> >> I had used it with great success and speed in May. > > Torrents are really only useful for files that a lot of people want to > download at the same time. There's just no reason to keep it going now. > [Not that I have any specific knowledge about whether the seeder is > still running.] Thanks for the response. That is what I was thinking. I am teaching a class and hoped to cover version 6.0 but when 6.0-BETA4-i386-bootonly.iso failed on my laptop due to some vr0 LOR error (I found was already known[1] but not in a PR and I don't know if it is fixed), I realized that I shouldn't use it since I can't test the hardware in my classroom ahead of time. And I read that 5.5 was to be released in September but no other news. So decided to download 5.4 release again. Anyways, I got the ISO after an hour or so. Maybe FreeBSD could provide torrent "servers" that are always running just in case that someone attempts it? (I don't know a lot about torrent though, but I assume that that is doable.) Jeremy C. Reed http://www.reedmedia.net/ [1] http://sources.zabbadoz.net/freebsd/lor.html
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