From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Feb 11 17:15:11 2014 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [8.8.178.115]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ADH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 3710A127 for ; Tue, 11 Feb 2014 17:15:11 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-ee0-x232.google.com (mail-ee0-x232.google.com [IPv6:2a00:1450:4013:c00::232]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-RC4-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id BDB631874 for ; Tue, 11 Feb 2014 17:15:10 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail-ee0-f50.google.com with SMTP id d17so3744526eek.23 for ; Tue, 11 Feb 2014 09:15:08 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=googlemail.com; s=20120113; h=from:to:date:mime-version:subject:message-id:priority:in-reply-to :references:content-type:content-transfer-encoding :content-description; bh=A8Fm+MIuYpCQXpu+0v6+lUX7qDjb+wpgwiHwtpwOSVk=; b=UXDecuNBLTUwl9c0PixUgvHchsvOw9kUm6pqF7GcHmjjJSmDiRox/2vaMMAOfVPk+k tIt7bxjk9EktSnhW3zPhWJDXDn0wMu6RiG8KPHLiSdgVVrcjZ3fPcNClM63cwHoo7qtX cVYZMt8I2RqKHZhxKPlKSGMA2rSo4hHd6J9nNwqdr7rhE2XhFUBjsqKnIMH3Wvmvls3L UvIbhAjXzvpRJnbWpJcedbBARntMDlz9am6jv8iA7kayk5HLmnx/dkK1sKa7oCAwuP31 9WxczRXLFX8/Bg8mTpicvUOrawQfxTqmJ0n6TIh1P3OczoLQGXq2ZCxg+3PrUhY0HEeW MsoA== X-Received: by 10.14.211.71 with SMTP id v47mr46033620eeo.37.1392138908359; Tue, 11 Feb 2014 09:15:08 -0800 (PST) Received: from [192.168.16.89] ([217.41.35.220]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPSA id x2sm69468481eeo.8.2014.02.11.09.15.04 for (version=TLSv1 cipher=RC4-SHA bits=128/128); Tue, 11 Feb 2014 09:15:07 -0800 (PST) From: g8kbvdave@googlemail.com To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Tue, 11 Feb 2014 17:14:50 -0000 MIME-Version: 1.0 Subject: Re: where to find FreeBSD torrent file Message-ID: <52FA5A8A.27287.1E3C8D3@g8kbvdave.gmail.com> Priority: normal In-reply-to: <20140210023754.GC99503@neutralgood.org> References: <1391945788.29258.YahooMailNeo@web140803.mail.bf1.yahoo.com>, , <20140210023754.GC99503@neutralgood.org> X-mailer: Pegasus Mail for Windows (4.62) Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Content-description: Mail message body X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.17 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 11 Feb 2014 17:15:11 -0000 > 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. > What's the exact issue? Torrents are a pain, slow, unreliable and it's not impossible for you to get seeded with other stuff you don't want. Also, many ISP's block such activity. Torrent by name, not by nature... Sucking down an ISO file from the main FBSD site, yes it takes a while. So just kick off the download overnight if needed. The byte count isnt much different, in fact probably less than a Torrent when all done, for those trying not to trip over any download quota. If you use a manager of some sort, they generally recover from any trouble, and restart from where it left off. If all else fails, I'm sure you can still purchase a DVD or something to be sent via snail mail. Leave Torrents for the kiddies who like to rip off other peoples music, and other copyrighted material, while also sharing viruses etc. Just my opinion, others may disagree. Regards to all. Dave B.