From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Feb 11 22:15:28 2014 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ADH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id F00F9958 for ; Tue, 11 Feb 2014 22:15:28 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-wi0-x231.google.com (mail-wi0-x231.google.com [IPv6:2a00:1450:400c:c05::231]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-RC4-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 825A718D6 for ; Tue, 11 Feb 2014 22:15:28 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail-wi0-f177.google.com with SMTP id e4so5502448wiv.10 for ; Tue, 11 Feb 2014 14:15:27 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=googlemail.com; s=20120113; h=date:from:to:subject:message-id:in-reply-to:references:mime-version :content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=73AgltTiOqrof0MTJO6RbQ//1UlydDlbmFn3jqySuNU=; b=ZoOsJjT+OrGtH3iiJ+1qdP0w/ULiA3FAomWo/E31eW4QPcgm/jrHcrIdnKDWsTchtW BTnXTDj8R+gMVBCnhCZn0F1GJd+qYMtxirCGyEgdG3fJAoO+FGpsTPI7nJLgWHlHq0l1 ZXiHoKyPT7pKSmmF4v15wnwXLfqjzE7fQnX+7RlCt2BHxh7/MwHUzwLPz2FAzpyVcTCE aQgMWyhfS25+GKMlkDG2v1QY/Y/Sm2D1KGIgs4lce6PemtlMWjbPlOLBo+8rRilc9/FQ XzYr7NrwCpV3vxHtFKcc8eYTG/NwbPLPcHaYfo3qOUOHnwFLQaDFGLo76KvWMGyCTaGD SJUQ== X-Received: by 10.180.38.7 with SMTP id c7mr293299wik.0.1392156926878; Tue, 11 Feb 2014 14:15:26 -0800 (PST) Received: from gumby.homeunix.com (2e40c5d2.skybroadband.com. [46.64.197.210]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPSA id y18sm954503wie.11.2014.02.11.14.15.26 for (version=SSLv3 cipher=RC4-SHA bits=128/128); Tue, 11 Feb 2014 14:15:26 -0800 (PST) Date: Tue, 11 Feb 2014 22:15:25 +0000 From: RW To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: where to find FreeBSD torrent file Message-ID: <20140211221525.1906c149@gumby.homeunix.com> In-Reply-To: <52FA5A8A.27287.1E3C8D3@g8kbvdave.gmail.com> References: <1391945788.29258.YahooMailNeo@web140803.mail.bf1.yahoo.com> <20140210023754.GC99503@neutralgood.org> <52FA5A8A.27287.1E3C8D3@g8kbvdave.gmail.com> X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.9.3 (GTK+ 2.24.22; amd64-portbld-freebsd10.0) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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 22:15:29 -0000 On Tue, 11 Feb 2014 17:14:50 -0000 g8kbvdave@googlemail.com wrote: > > 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 They do have the advantage of being at their fastest when there is most demand and ordinary servers have the heaviest load. It's possible to include links to download mirrors within a torrent which can be used to avoid the torrent becoming slow or unreliable when demand falls. > it's not impossible for you > to get seeded with other stuff you don't want. > .. > Leave Torrents for the kiddies who like to rip off other peoples > music, and other copyrighted material, while also sharing viruses etc. I'm not sure what you mean by "seeded with", but the contents of a torrent is protected by hashes. A torrent is as safe as the source of the torrent - that's why they want to get them from the FreeBSD site.