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Date: Thu, 4 Nov 2004 20:49:03 -0800
From: pete wright <nomadlogic@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: FreeBSD 5.3 RC2 disk 1 ISO torrent available
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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

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