Hello.
It depends. At the time that I created the torrent, the official
download source was too slow, therefore taking a lot of time.
But maybe I did not explore all alternatives at the time.
Regards,
João Jerónimo
Às 18:48 de 04/01/2021, Javier Fernández Arroyo escreveu:
no, it didn´t 😉
I agree with Aleksey, it does not matter for light software such as BE
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*De:* Ros-general <[email protected]> en nombre de
Aleksey Bragin <[email protected]>
*Enviado:* lunes, 4 de enero de 2021 17:14
*Para:* [email protected] <[email protected]>
*Asunto:* Re: [ros-general] Torrents for ReactOS build environment
What's the advantage?
I think download speed, but that matters for large images (like Debian
indeed). Unless ReactOS became huge when I didn't watch it close
enough :-)
Regards,
Aleksey Bragin
On 1/4/2021 12:39 PM, Frank Van Damme wrote:
> Hello,
>
> A couple of major Linux distributions ofer bittorrent downloads as
an option.
>
> https://linuxmint.com/edition.php?id=281
<https://linuxmint.com/edition.php?id=281> Torrent listed before iso link
> https://ubuntu.com/download/alternative-downloads
<https://ubuntu.com/download/alternative-downloads> -> scroll down for
bittorrent
> https://www.debian.org/distrib/ <https://www.debian.org/distrib/> ->
small print under "Download an
> installation image"
> http://ftp.belnet.be/mirror/ftp.centos.org/8.3.2011/isos/x86_64/
<http://ftp.belnet.be/mirror/ftp.centos.org/8.3.2011/isos/x86_64/> -> of
> course these are iso images to be found but there is a torrent file as
> well
>
> Greetings,
>
> Op zo 10 mei 2020 om 19:38 schreef Colin Finck <[email protected]>:
>> Am 10.05.2020 um 18:01 schrieb João Jerónimo:
>>> So I decided to create a torrent
>>> file for it and setup 2 seeds. The torrents can be downloaded from:
>>>
>>> https://drive.google.com/open?id=1GXOF8TxQrmc4BiRPL4F8ZmqoCdFv9j-H
<https://drive.google.com/open?id=1GXOF8TxQrmc4BiRPL4F8ZmqoCdFv9j-H>
>>>
>>> I think it would be good idea to share the torrents on the RosBE wiki
>>> page, and maybe also create an official tracker to share ReactOS
files,
>>> setup other seeds, etc. Sounds like a good idea?
>> While I like people who take the initiative, I haven't seen torrents
>> widely used for open source software distribution for at least a
decade.
>> Whenever I encounter a slow download these days, I can always choose an
>> alternative mirror that is faster.
>>
>> SourceForge.net already offers quite a few mirrors. And even if all of
>> them happen to be slow, we already have
https://download.reactos.org <https://download.reactos.org>
>> I guess that is the URL which actually needs more advertising.
>>
>>
>> Cheers,
>>
>> Colin
>>
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