From owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Sep 24 17:10:22 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0BAA716A41F for ; Sat, 24 Sep 2005 17:10:22 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from reed@pilchuck.reedmedia.net) Received: from pilchuck.reedmedia.net (pilchuck.reedmedia.net [209.166.74.74]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A82E543D48 for ; Sat, 24 Sep 2005 17:10:21 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from reed@pilchuck.reedmedia.net) Received: from reed by pilchuck.reedmedia.net with local (Exim 4.44) id 1EJDXZ-0004SC-DD; Sat, 24 Sep 2005 10:10:21 -0700 Date: Sat, 24 Sep 2005 10:10:21 -0700 (PDT) From: "Jeremy C. Reed" To: Lowell Gilbert In-Reply-To: <44d5my1l9f.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> Message-ID: References: <44d5my1l9f.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Sender: "Jeremy C. Reed" Cc: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: torrents for FreeBSD ISOs? X-BeenThere: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Non technical items related to the community List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 24 Sep 2005 17:10:22 -0000 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