[OT] [KORG] BitTorrents?

[OT] [KORG] BitTorrents?

[Sean Bruno]

Is there any reason for not putting the kernel(and it's updates) up on a
tracker on kernel.org?  I looked through the list and noted that there
has not been any discussion in regards to this topic.

I personally don't have enough up-stream bandwidth(384K) to support a
tracker, but I have enough to contribute to a torrent...

Sean

Re: [OT] [KORG] BitTorrents?

[Maciej Soltysiak]

Hello Sean,

Monday, August 29, 2005, 6:13:21 AM, you wrote:

> Is there any reason for not putting the kernel(and it's updates) up on a
> tracker on kernel.org?  I looked through the list and noted that there
> has not been any discussion in regards to this topic.
Maybe because HTTP and FTP is usually easier to get, the downloads are
faster if you have a fast mirror and ibiblio.org is already posting
the kernels on BitTorrent, eg. for 2.6 you have these:
http://torrent.ibiblio.org/browse.php?docid=42

Also checkout other things they post, including video lectures:
http://torrent.ibiblio.org

> I personally don't have enough up-stream bandwidth(384K) to support a
> tracker, but I have enough to contribute to a torrent...
No problem, ibiblio.org has :-)

--
Maciej

Re: [OT] [KORG] BitTorrents?

[Rogério Brito]

On Aug 29 2005, Maciej Soltysiak wrote:
> Also checkout other things they post, including video lectures:
> http://torrent.ibiblio.org

Thank you so very much for this. This is indeed a quite valuable
resource and being able to download via bittorrent is sometimes faster
for some people and the fact that we can also contribute with a little
bandwidth for other people just gives the feeling of giving something
back to the community.


Thanks for the pointer, Rogério.

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