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
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
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.jsonhttps://wiki.freebsd.org/Torrentshttp://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
