From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Feb 21 20:46:22 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 70C1E16A4CE for ; Mon, 21 Feb 2005 20:46:22 +0000 (GMT) Received: from scorpion.eng.ufl.edu (scorpion.eng.ufl.edu [128.227.116.10]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 9A10643D2F for ; Mon, 21 Feb 2005 20:46:21 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from bob89@eng.ufl.edu) Received: (qmail 14423 invoked from network); 21 Feb 2005 20:46:20 -0000 Received: from scanner.engnet.ufl.edu (HELO ?128.227.152.221?) (128.227.152.221) by scorpion.eng.ufl.edu with SMTP; 21 Feb 2005 20:46:20 -0000 Message-ID: <421A489C.1020909@eng.ufl.edu> Date: Mon, 21 Feb 2005 15:46:20 -0500 From: Bob Johnson Organization: University of Florida User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0 (X11/20050131) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Lorne G References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Torrent Distro X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 21 Feb 2005 20:46:22 -0000 Lorne G wrote: >I was wondering if you wonderful people at FreeBSD have considered releasing >FreeBSD as a bit torrent. I recently visited the slackware site and they >provide links to torrents for the ISO CD images. I thought it was a really >good idea and the download times were awesome. Don't worry FreeBSD is still >my choice for easy of use and stability. Just a suggestion. > >Lorne G >TechG Solutions >Ph. 780.991.5232 > >_______________________________________________ >freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list >http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions >To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > >!DSPAM:421a43f4739521242910361! > > > Already done: http://people.freebsd.org/~scottl/5.3-torrent although the only place it appears to be mentioned (other than the archives of the mailing lists) is in the 5.3 release announcement: http://www.freebsd.org/releases/5.3R/announce.html and perhaps recent 4.x announcements, I didn't look there. I guess the Handbook and a few other places haven't been updated yet, or I missed it when I looked at them. Maybe among all the other things I want to get done tonight, I'll find time to file a PR on that (if it hasn't been done already). - Bob