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 [e-mail] en nombre de 
> Aleksey Bragin [e-mail]
> *Enviado:* lunes, 4 de enero de 2021 17:14
> *Para:* [e-mail] [e-mail]
> *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 [e-mail]:
> > > 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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