On Mon, Nov 21, 2011 at 8:01 AM, Harald Schilly <harald.schi...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi, I always create those metalinks. They work just like torrents, but > use the usual http and ftp mirrors as "seeds" and hence don't depend > on others uploading from their computers.
That's fantastic. I should learn about metalinks -- I'm clueless about them. Thanks. > The problem with only seeding via torrents is, that nobody is > uploading (Sage simply doesn't have the critical mass of users > downloading it) and hence we would have to setup a few nodes > permanently seeding. Honestly, I don't know how to do this effectively > and metalinks are still better, because they have more sources and > include the torrent anyways. > > http://www.sagemath.org/mirror/metalinks.html > > and here would be a torrent for the sage sources: > http://www.sagemath.org/mirror/src/meta/sage-4.7.2.tar.torrent > > Harald > > On Mon, Nov 21, 2011 at 16:42, William Stein <wst...@gmail.com> wrote: >> Hi Harald, >> >> I was just downloading Linux Mint from [1] and was very happy when I >> got a torrent link, since damn bittorrent is often amazingly fast for >> me at home, when it works. > -- William Stein Professor of Mathematics University of Washington http://wstein.org -- To post to this group, send an email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to sage-devel+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel URL: http://www.sagemath.org
