Torrent Distro

[Lorne G]

I was wondering if you wonderful people at FreeBSD have considered releasing
FreeBSD as a bit torrent. I recently visited the slackware site and they
provide links to torrents for the ISO CD images. I thought it was a really
good idea and the download times were awesome. Don't worry FreeBSD is still
my choice for easy of use and stability. Just a suggestion.

Lorne G
TechG Solutions
Ph. 780.991.5232

[FreeBsdBeni]

On Monday 21 February 2005 21:25, Lorne G wrote:

> I was wondering if you wonderful people at FreeBSD have considered
> releasing FreeBSD as a bit torrent. I recently visited the slackware site
> and they provide links to torrents for the ISO CD images. I thought it was
> a really good idea and the download times were awesome. Don't worry FreeBSD
> is still my choice for easy of use and stability. Just a suggestion.

Already taken care of : [url]http://people.freebsd.org/~scottl/5.3-torrent/[/url]

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[Bob Johnson]

Lorne G wrote:

>I was wondering if you wonderful people at FreeBSD have considered releasing
>FreeBSD as a bit torrent. I recently visited the slackware site and they
>provide links to torrents for the ISO CD images. I thought it was a really
>good idea and the download times were awesome. Don't worry FreeBSD is still
>my choice for easy of use and stability. Just a suggestion.
>
>Lorne G
>TechG Solutions
>Ph. 780.991.5232
>
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Already done: [url]http://people.freebsd.org/~scottl/5.3-torrent[/url]
although the only place it appears to be mentioned (other than the
archives of the mailing lists) is in the 5.3 release announcement:
[url]http://www.freebsd.org/releases/5.3R/announce.html[/url]
and perhaps recent 4.x announcements, I didn't look there.

I guess the Handbook and a few other places haven't been updated yet, or
I missed it when I looked at them. Maybe among all the other things I
want to get done tonight, I'll find time to file a PR on that (if it
hasn't been done already).

- Bob

[Matthew Seaman]

On Mon, Feb 21, 2005 at 01:25:24PM -0700, Lorne G wrote:

> I was wondering if you wonderful people at FreeBSD have considered releasing
> FreeBSD as a bit torrent. I recently visited the slackware site and they
> provide links to torrents for the ISO CD images. I thought it was a really
> good idea and the download times were awesome. Don't worry FreeBSD is still
> my choice for easy of use and stability. Just a suggestion.

Yes. The latest release is certainly available as a torrent, and
documented as such in the release announcement:

[url]http://www.freebsd.org/releases/4.11R/announce.html[/url]

Release via torrent is still considered experimental, which is
probably why it isn't mentioned more prominently on the web site.

See:

[url]http://people.freebsd.org/~kensmith/4.11-torrent/[/url]

5.3-RELEASE is also available as a torrent.

Cheers,

Matthew

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