Ros-general May 2020

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Torrents for ReactOS build environment
by João Jerónimo 24 Jun '21

24 Jun '21

Hello, Yesterday I downloaded the new version of RosBE for Unix and it took me half an hour to complete the download. 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 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? Regards, João Jerónimo

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Error installing RosBE-Unix-2.2
by João Jerónimo 13 May '20

13 May '20

Hello, I tried to install RosBE-Unix-2.2 on Linux Mint v19.2 and it failed with following error: Running "/usr/bin/make -j 4 all-gcc"... FAILED Please take a look at the log file "/home/jj/Transferências/RosBE-Unix-2.2/sources/build.log" If you did not do something wrong, please save the log file and contact the ReactOS Team. Aborted! --------------------- Build.log file is in attachment. It says in the end: «../../gcc/gcc/doc/invoke.texi:1759: @include: could not find /home/jj/Transferências/RosBE-Unix-2.2/sources/gcc-build/gcc/../../gcc/gcc/../libiberty/at-file.texi». However, /home/jj/Transferências/RosBE-Unix-2.2/sources/gcc-build/gcc/../../gcc/gcc/../libiberty/at-file.texi file actually exists. And the error is not related to portuguese accents in "Transferências" folder name. I know that because some days ago I tried to build in /home/jj/sw folder with the same error as a result. This time the script was run like this: sudo ./RosBE-Builder.sh But the other day I ran it without sudo. Same error. Any idea? Thanks, João Jerónimo

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Re: [ros-general] Torrents for ReactOS build environment
by João Jerónimo 13 May '20

13 May '20

Hello, At Sun, 10 May 2020 19:36:39 +0200 Colin Finck wrote: > 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. Not true. Debian project regularly distributes it's ISOs using torrents/magnet, and the same is true for LinuxMint, LibreOffice, FreeBSD, Fedora, etc. Many of these projects have their own private trackers setup. And you can see their stats: http://bttracker.debian.org:6969/stat As you can see, debian-10.0.0-amd64-DVD-1.iso was downloaded 27894 using the torrent network. https://torrent.fedoraproject.org/stats/current-stats.json https://wiki.freebsd.org/Torrents http://openbsd.somedomain.net/ > Whenever I encounter a slow download these days, I can always choose an > alternative mirror that is faster. Well, they are not always available and as far as I know the torrents tend to be more distributed and allow download "acceleration" by design (I mean downloading several file pieces at the same time) whereas with a simple HTTPS mirror you remain dependent of the bandwidth of 1 server. In Debian website they even provide an explanation about why one should use the torrents: «It puts minimal load on our servers because BitTorrent clients upload pieces of files to others while downloading, thus spreading the load across the network and making blazing fast downloads possible». Regards. JJ

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