[CentOS] CentOS 5 and bittorrent

[chrism at imntv.com]

John Hinton wrote:
> Folks. This is likely to be the hardest hit CentOS has ever taken with 
> regards to bandwidth needs.
>
> I was really hesitant to use bittorrent for this type of thing for a 
> long time. However, it really is nice to give back at least what you 
> take. At the moment, I'm seeing almost 3000 connections to the 
> torrent. That times 3.5 gigs is a pretty huge chunk of data... and it 
> has just begun.
>
> What I'm getting at here, is CentOS gives a LOT! If you have never 
> considered doing your downloads via a torrent, please do consider this 
> and try to give back at least the bandwidth you use. I'm sure the 
> CentOS team will appreciate this more than you will ever know.
>
> Me? I'm downloading via a winders box and I use bit tornado which is 
> extremely flexible in setting upload and download allowances as well 
> as the number of connections. And it's free. I'm sure others use many 
> of the other aps available.. just please consider using the torrent.

If someone wants to send me a cheat sheet on how to run a command line 
version of bitorrent, I'll throw one up on a reasonably beefy machine at 
the datacenter that's got multiple gigE links to the net.

Cheers,