Re: [ros-general] Torrents for ReactOS build environment

[Thomas Mueller]

from Colin Finck:

>   Am 10.05.2020 um 18:01 schrieb Jo=C3=A3o
> Jer=C3=B3nimo:
> >   So I decided to create a torrent
> >  file for it and setup 2 seeds. The torrents can be downloaded from: 
> =20
> >  
> > https://drive.google.com/open?id=3D1GXOF8TxQrmc4BiRPL4F8ZmqoCdFv9j-H 
> =20
>  > 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 
I believe Distrowatch weekly offers several torrents, but now git is the big thing for
downloading from and tracking open-source software; there is also cvs, svn and mercurial
(hg)

Last time I looked, ReactOS had the highest page-hit ranking of any non-Linux OS.

I have been idle on ReactOS because my hard drives are partitioned GPT, and ReactOS can
not boot and install from USB.

I could try to download RosBE and cross-compile ReactOS from NetBSD or FreeBSD but would
have no place to put the result if successful.

Bittorrent would of course not solve this problem.

Resending this message because I missed copying the Subject: line the first time.

Tom