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

[Devel]

Hello.


It depends. At the time that I created the torrent, the official 
download source was too slow, therefore taking a lot of time.

But maybe I did not explore all alternatives at the time.


Regards,

João Jerónimo



Às 18:48 de 04/01/2021, Javier Fernández Arroyo escreveu:
>   no, it didn´t 😉
>  I agree with Aleksey, it does not matter for light software such as BE
>  ------------------------------------------------------------------------
>  *De:* Ros-general <ros-general-bounces(a)reactos.org> en nombre de 
>  Aleksey Bragin <aleksey(a)reactos.org>
>  *Enviado:* lunes, 4 de enero de 2021 17:14
>  *Para:* ros-general(a)reactos.org <ros-general(a)reactos.org>
>  *Asunto:* Re: [ros-general] Torrents for ReactOS build environment
>  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  
> <https://linuxmint.com/edition.php?id=281> Torrent listed before iso link
> >   https://ubuntu.com/download/alternative-downloads
> >  
>  <https://ubuntu.com/download/alternative-downloads> -> scroll down for 
>  bittorrent
> >   https://www.debian.org/distrib/
> > <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/  
> <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 &lt;colin(a)reactos.org&gt;rg>:
> > > 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  
> <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
> <https://download.reactos.org>
> >  > I guess that is the URL which actually needs
> > more advertising.
> > >
> > >
> > > Cheers,
> > >
> > > Colin
> > > 
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