Date: 24 Sep 2005 14:46:00 -0400 From: Lowell Gilbert <freebsd-chat-local@be-well.ilk.org> To: "Jeremy C. Reed" <reed@reedmedia.net> Cc: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: torrents for FreeBSD ISOs? Message-ID: <44psqyz4lz.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> In-Reply-To: <Pine.NEB.4.62.0509241003320.26137@pilchuck.reedmedia.net> References: <Pine.NEB.4.62.0509231424210.26137@pilchuck.reedmedia.net> <44d5my1l9f.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> <Pine.NEB.4.62.0509241003320.26137@pilchuck.reedmedia.net>
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"Jeremy C. Reed" <reed@reedmedia.net> writes: > 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. Regardless of which release you are using, you really want to test on the target hardware ahead of time. > And I read that 5.5 was to be released in September but no other > news. It's been delayed because 6.0 is delayed. There aren't enough release engineers to work on both releases at once. > So decided to download 5.4 release again. Anyways, I got the ISO > after an hour or so. I would expect an academic to have pretty good connectivity. Sounds like it. > 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.) It is certainly possible. Bear in mind, though, that the torrents for the releases are still an experimental distribution mechanism. And for a *single* downloader, FTP is faster than Bittorrent, so even if the torrent were still running, you would have been better off with conventional downloading techniques.
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