At 12:10 9/24/2005, Jeremy C. Reed, wrote: >On Sat, 24 Sep 2005, Lowell Gilbert wrote: > >>> Are there any active torrents for FreeBSD ISOs? >>> >>> I used torrent file as found via FreeBSD 5.4 announcement. But for >>> over 30 minutes ctorrent timed out attempting to retrieve it. >>> >>> I had used it with great success and speed in May. >> >> Torrents are really only useful for files that a lot of people want to >> download at the same time. There's just no reason to keep it going now. >> [Not that I have any specific knowledge about whether the seeder is >> still running.] > >Thanks for the response. That is what I was thinking. > >I am teaching a class and hoped to cover version 6.0 but when >6.0-BETA4-i386-bootonly.iso failed on my laptop due to some vr0 LOR error >(I found was already known[1] but not in a PR and I don't know if it is >fixed), I realized that I shouldn't use it since I can't test the hardware >in my classroom ahead of time. > >And I read that 5.5 was to be released in September but no other news. So >decided to download 5.4 release again. Anyways, I got the ISO after an >hour or so. > >Maybe FreeBSD could provide torrent "servers" that are always running just >in case that someone attempts it? (I don't know a lot about torrent >though, but I assume that that is doable.)
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