rado wrote:
...If you like the majority of us as I am...there is something we can do for the centos scene that really doesn't cost anything.
When you download the distro...just let bittorrent seed indefinitely.
I've been letting 4.4 download seed now for about two days. I live in the US, and have Verizon DSL. Today, actually, I just switched to business level service which when I transferred I asked if there were any bandwith limits, and there aren't.
Before I had regular residential service, although I've never been called upon by Verizon when letting things seed for a long time, I think if you would look at the contract somewhere in fine print there would be something about using "too much" bandwith.
Anyways, now that I'm on a business service as of today, I've been letting the 4.4 go to town with a 25KB upload, and the share ratio as of this moment states 116%.
I agree with you, anything little like this to help out CentOS can be done, but make sure you aren't breaching any ISP contracts before doing so. I would love to host a server as a mirror somewhere, but unfortunately can't afford to do so. Perhaps someday I will be able to, but for now I hope my small contributions are at least helping. :)
Max