From owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Sep 24 18:46:03 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 90CDC16A41F for ; Sat, 24 Sep 2005 18:46:03 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from freebsd-chat-local@be-well.ilk.org) Received: from mail25.sea5.speakeasy.net (mail25.sea5.speakeasy.net [69.17.117.27]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 431C743D48 for ; Sat, 24 Sep 2005 18:46:03 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from freebsd-chat-local@be-well.ilk.org) Received: (qmail 9409 invoked from network); 24 Sep 2005 18:46:01 -0000 Received: from dsl092-078-145.bos1.dsl.speakeasy.net (HELO be-well.ilk.org) ([66.92.78.145]) (envelope-sender ) by mail25.sea5.speakeasy.net (qmail-ldap-1.03) with SMTP for ; 24 Sep 2005 18:46:01 -0000 Received: by be-well.ilk.org (Postfix, from userid 1147) id A789F36; Sat, 24 Sep 2005 14:46:00 -0400 (EDT) Sender: lowell@be-well.ilk.org To: "Jeremy C. Reed" References: <44d5my1l9f.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> From: Lowell Gilbert Date: 24 Sep 2005 14:46:00 -0400 In-Reply-To: Message-ID: <44psqyz4lz.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> Lines: 48 User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.3 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii 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 18:46:03 -0000 "Jeremy C. Reed" 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.