What's the advantage?
I think download speed, but that matters for large images (like Debian
indeed). Unless ReactOS became huge when I didn't watch it close enough :-)

Regards,
Aleksey Bragin

On 1/4/2021 12:39 PM, Frank Van Damme wrote:
> Hello,
>
> A couple of major Linux distributions ofer bittorrent downloads as an option.
>
> https://linuxmint.com/edition.php?id=281 Torrent listed before iso link
> https://ubuntu.com/download/alternative-downloads -> scroll down for bittorrent
> https://www.debian.org/distrib/ -> small print under "Download an
> installation image"
> http://ftp.belnet.be/mirror/ftp.centos.org/8.3.2011/isos/x86_64/ -> of
> course these are iso images to be found but there is a torrent file as
> well
>
> Greetings,
>
> Op zo 10 mei 2020 om 19:38 schreef Colin Finck <colin@reactos.org>:
>> Am 10.05.2020 um 18:01 schrieb João Jerónimo:
>>> 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?
>> 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.
>> Whenever I encounter a slow download these days, I can always choose an
>> alternative mirror that is faster.
>>
>> SourceForge.net already offers quite a few mirrors. And even if all of
>> them happen to be slow, we already have https://download.reactos.org
>> I guess that is the URL which actually needs more advertising.
>>
>>
>> Cheers,
>>
>> Colin
>>

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