Date: Thu, 4 Nov 2004 20:49:03 -0800 From: pete wright <nomadlogic@gmail.com> To: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD 5.3 RC2 disk 1 ISO torrent available Message-ID: <57d71000041104204910d24c4@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20041104233225.GA89577@xor.obsecurity.org> References: <418AB64D.4010009@eng.ufl.edu> <20041104233225.GA89577@xor.obsecurity.org>
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On Thu, 4 Nov 2004 15:32:26 -0800, Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> wrote: > On Thu, Nov 04, 2004 at 06:07:57PM -0500, Bob Johnson wrote: > > This is more of an announcement than a question, but: > > > > In the past, I've noticed questions from people looking for ISO image > > file torrents for FreeBSD. To see if there really is a demand for this, > > I've set one up (only for FreeBSD 5.3RC2 i386 disk 1). You can download > > the torrent file from http://www.eng.ufl.edu/bobj/FreeBSD-5_3_RC2.torrent > > > > I'm using bnbt for the tracker and seeding it with ctorrent. For some > > reason it seems reluctant to seed to other copies of ctorrent, but works > > fine with other clients (e.g. qtorrent). When possible, I'll keep > > another seed up with a different client to try to make sure a usable > > seed is always up. > > > > I'll also try to upload a copy to http://www.suprnova.org to get it more > > exposure. > > BTW, we're going to have 'official' torrents for the release this > time. Thanks for doing this for rc2 though. > > Kris hey this is an awesome idea. a timely link here: http://in.tech.yahoo.com/041103/137/2ho4i.html (sorry for the repost /. readers) -pete -- ~~o0OO0o~~ Pete Wright www.nycbug.org NYC's *BSD User Group
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