Date: Wed, 31 Jan 2007 00:44:44 -0800 From: "Ted Mittelstaedt" <tedm@toybox.placo.com> To: "Garrett Cooper" <youshi10@u.washington.edu>, <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: FreeBSD Torrent Server Message-ID: <017501c74514$0e6793c0$3c01a8c0@coolf89ea26645> References: <45BE469F.70001@mts.net><015f01c74512$af52b730$3c01a8c0@coolf89ea26645> <45C05615.9070301@u.washington.edu>
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----- Original Message ----- From: "Garrett Cooper" <youshi10@u.washington.edu> 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" <hildebeb@mts.net> > > 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
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