----- Original Message ----- From: "Garrett Cooper" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Sent: Wednesday, January 31, 2007 12:40 AM Subject: Re: FreeBSD Torrent Server
> Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: > > ----- Original Message ----- > > From: "Eric Hildebrandt" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > To: <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> > > Sent: Monday, January 29, 2007 11:10 AM > > Subject: FreeBSD Torrent Server > > > > > >> I was wondering if the FreeBSD torrent server will be back online any > >> time soon? Tryed to download version 6.2 and comes server not there. > >> > > > > Why? > > > > FreeBSD isn't commercial software, there's no need to go through > > all the hocus pocus to conceal the uploader so the RIAA doesen't > > sue him. Standard FTP works perfectly fine at any of the mirror sites, > > and you will get your ISO no slower. > > > > Ted > > The only plus behind using torrents really for getting ISOs is reducing > server load on the freebsd.org folks (well, not from a tracker point of > view but rather from a network point of view perhaps?). The FreeBSD server operators don't pay a dime for bandwidth and if the bandwidth supplier for freebsd.org made the slightest complaint about the bandwidth they are donating, there's a passel of ISP's and networks that would fight each other for the chance of the feather in the cap that hosting freebsd.org is. Ted _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
