Date: Mon, 10 Feb 2014 11:15:16 +0000 From: Johannes Totz <johannes@jo-t.de> To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: where to find FreeBSD torrent file Message-ID: <ldacbi$pjn$1@ger.gmane.org> In-Reply-To: <20140210023754.GC99503@neutralgood.org> References: <1391945788.29258.YahooMailNeo@web140803.mail.bf1.yahoo.com> <CAHHBGkr6Y5mfcXzos1mY5JNHQuNeEwxGyP-nyiz1OJWDQofUHQ@mail.gmail.com> <20140210023754.GC99503@neutralgood.org>
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On 10/02/2014 02:37, kpneal@pobox.com wrote: > On Sun, Feb 09, 2014 at 01:39:08PM -0500, illoai@gmail.com wrote: >> On 9 February 2014 06:36, Shankar <umailedit@yahoo.com> wrote: >>> I am trying to download FreeBSD 10 but I can only find the iso link. Where can I find a torrent file? Torrents will be faster for me and it will also reduce bandwidth demands on your servers. >>> _______________________________________________ >>> freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list >>> http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions >>> To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >> >> After a bit of searching, Linuxtracker seems to have FreeBSD 10 torrents: >> http://linuxtracker.org/index.php?page=torrent-details&id=27d4121e14d66f9068a602aa888148b5b0e4e7f1 >> http://linuxtracker.org/index.php?page=torrent-details&id=7a947685620bff41bbc89f9cc1c0b194c773b1f2 > > Are these the same torrents seen on Slashdot? > > Folks, It is increasingly clear that FreeBSD _must_ support bittorrent. > > I can't see how anyone would think that having people get FreeBSD from > random unofficial untrusted non-FreeBSD.org places online is at all a good > idea. FreeBSD needs to bring back a basic torrent tracker that recognizes > the last set of official torrents issued by FreeBSD plus new torrents for > the subsequent releases. > > If we do this then people will be getting reliable copies of FreeBSD but > will at the same time be using torrents. > > This means we need two thiings: > 1) A no-frills tracker with > 2) verified copies of the old torrents > > Can we safely use whatever tracker NetBSD is using? > > I realize this will take someone time. I also realize that time == money. > So, if someone officially FreeBSD can give me a cost estimate then I will > myself pay as much as I can towards getting this done. Really. Contact > me offlist to discuss, please. > > I'm CC'ing the people and list involved the last time this came up. I > apologize in advance for the double posting/crossposting. http://gotbsd.net/ has some older releases. But I would very much like to see an official tracker go online (again).
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