Torrents for ReactOS build environment

[João Jerónimo]

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

[Colin Finck]

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

[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.

Tom

[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

[Mark Rousell]

On 10/05/2020 18:36, Colin Finck wrote:
> I haven't seen torrents widely used for open source software
> distribution for at least a decade.

Torrents are common from what I have seen. Offhand, I can think of
Debian https://www.debian.org/distrib/, Ubuntu
https://ubuntu.com/download/alternative-downloads#bittorrents and Mint
https://linuxmint.com/edition.php?id=274 who all offer official torrents.

I've been doing quite a bit of downloading of open source operating
systems recently since I've been testing various OSs and I have to say
that I have commonly found official torrents to be faster overall than
most mirrors.

If you have a torrent client handy (as a random example the Brave
browser includes a torrent client) then torrents can be as easy to use
as HTTP download links.
-- 
Mark Rousell

[João Jerónimo]

Jo�o Jer�nimo wrote:
> 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

Hello again.

In case anyone wants to use my torrents and doesn't know how to verify 
the file, there is a way to get the file checksum via sourceforge. Just 
click the big ! round icon in the far right of the file list.

Regards!

Jo�o Jer�nimo

[Sylvain Petreolle]

Hello,
I have been sharing ROS on eMule too.
ed2k://|file|ReactOS-0.3.16-REL-live.iso|179482624|D89140DBA4CC91228CBF2076B6FE5E65|/

Kind regards, Sylvain Petreolle

Le vendredi 15 mai 2020 à 10:17:06 UTC+2, Mark Rousell [e-mail] a écrit :

On 10/05/2020 18:36, Colin Finck wrote:

I haven't seen torrents widely used for open source software distribution for at least a decade.

Torrents are common from what I have seen. Offhand, I can think of Debian https://www.debian.org/distrib/, Ubuntu https://ubuntu.com/download/alternative-downloads#bittorrents and Mint https://linuxmint.com/edition.php?id=274 who all offer official torrents.

I've been doing quite a bit of downloading of open source operating systems recently since I've been testing various OSs and I have to say that I have commonly found official torrents to be faster overall than most mirrors.

If you have a torrent client handy (as a random example the Brave browser includes a torrent client) then torrents can be as easy to use as HTTP download links.

-- 
Mark Rousell
 
 
 
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[Frank Van Damme]

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 [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
> >
> > 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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> [e-mail]
> http://reactos.org/mailman/listinfo/ros-general
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Frank Van Damme
Make everything as simple as possible, but not simpler. - Albert Einstein

[Aleksey Bragin]

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 [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
> > >
> > > 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

[Javier Fernández Arroyo]

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 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 [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
> > >
> > > 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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[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
>
> Ros-general mailing list
> [e-mail]
> http://reactos.org/mailman/listinfo/ros-general 
> http://reactos.org/mailman/listinfo/ros-general
>
> Ros-general mailing list
> [e-mail]
> http://reactos.org/mailman/listinfo/ros-general

[Devel]

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

You know, SourceForge was more user-friendly in the past. Sometimes I 
fail to remember how to select another mirror.

Other mirrors are in the "Problems Downloading?" button.

Regards,

João Jerónimo

Às 10:35 de 24/06/2021, Devel escreveu:
> 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
> >
> > Ros-general mailing list
> > [e-mail]
> > http://reactos.org/mailman/listinfo/ros-general 
> > http://reactos.org/mailman/listinfo/ros-general
> >
> > Ros-general mailing list
> > [e-mail]
> > http://reactos.org/mailman/listinfo/ros-general

[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

[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