From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Feb 10 11:15:26 2014 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ADH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 149FBDDC for ; Mon, 10 Feb 2014 11:15:26 +0000 (UTC) Received: from plane.gmane.org (plane.gmane.org [80.91.229.3]) (using TLSv1 with cipher AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id C41E6123C for ; Mon, 10 Feb 2014 11:15:25 +0000 (UTC) Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1WCope-0001nZ-Cj for freebsd-stable@freebsd.org; Mon, 10 Feb 2014 12:15:22 +0100 Received: from jtotz2.cs.ucl.ac.uk ([128.16.6.56]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 10 Feb 2014 12:15:22 +0100 Received: from johannes by jtotz2.cs.ucl.ac.uk with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 10 Feb 2014 12:15:22 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org From: Johannes Totz Subject: Re: where to find FreeBSD torrent file Date: Mon, 10 Feb 2014 11:15:16 +0000 Lines: 43 Message-ID: References: <1391945788.29258.YahooMailNeo@web140803.mail.bf1.yahoo.com> <20140210023754.GC99503@neutralgood.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: jtotz2.cs.ucl.ac.uk User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.2; WOW64; rv:24.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/24.2.0 In-Reply-To: <20140210023754.GC99503@neutralgood.org> X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.17 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 10 Feb 2014 11:15:26 -0000 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 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).