On 10/02/2014 02:37, kpneal@pobox.com wrote:
> On Sun, Feb 09, 2014 at 01:39:08PM -0500, illoai@gmail.com wrote:
>> On 9 February 2014 06:36, Shankar <umailedit@yahoo.com> wrote:
>>> I am trying to download FreeBSD 10 but I can only find the iso link. Where can I find a torrent file? Torrents will be faster for me and it will also reduce bandwidth demands on your servers.
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>> After a bit of searching, Linuxtracker seems to have FreeBSD 10 torrents:
>> http://linuxtracker.org/index.php?page=torrent-details&id=27d4121e14d66f9068a602aa888148b5b0e4e7f1
>> http://linuxtracker.org/index.php?page=torrent-details&id=7a947685620bff41bbc89f9cc1c0b194c773b1f2
>
> Are these the same torrents seen on Slashdot?
>
> Folks, It is increasingly clear that FreeBSD _must_ support bittorrent.
>
> I can't see how anyone would think that having people get FreeBSD from
> random unofficial untrusted non-FreeBSD.org places online is at all a good
> idea. FreeBSD needs to bring back a basic torrent tracker that recognizes
> the last set of official torrents issued by FreeBSD plus new torrents for
> the subsequent releases.
>
> If we do this then people will be getting reliable copies of FreeBSD but
> will at the same time be using torrents.
>
> This means we need two thiings:
> 1) A no-frills tracker with
> 2) verified copies of the old torrents
>
> Can we safely use whatever tracker NetBSD is using?
>
> I realize this will take someone time. I also realize that time == money.
> So, if someone officially FreeBSD can give me a cost estimate then I will
> myself pay as much as I can towards getting this done. Really. Contact
> me offlist to discuss, please.
>
> I'm CC'ing the people and list involved the last time this came up. I
> apologize in advance for the double posting/crossposting.
http://gotbsd.net/ has some older releases.
But I would very much like to see an official tracker go online (again).
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