[CentOS] Video drivers, bittorrent and Centos 5?

Don Levey centos at the-leveys.us
Sat Mar 24 15:30:39 UTC 2007


Scott R Ehrlich wrote:

> 
> If someone can convince me that bittorrent is a 100% safe way to retrieve a copy
> of the OS with no tampering, then I'll feel more comfortable.   Otherwise, I
> will want to completely redo my machine with CentOS 5, from partitioning on up.
> 
Scott,
You can look at the sha1sum on the CentOS site, and run sha1sum on the 
ISO that you download via Bittorrent.  The odds of a tampered version of 
the ISO being able to produce the same checksum are so vanishingly small 
that it should serve.
  -Don



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