Hi Folks. Just a quick question. I have been sharing CenOS 5.0 and 5.1 since I down loaded them. Now we are on to 5.2 is it still worth sharing them or can I archive them to DVD and save some hard drive space? Regards John
John Bowden <> scribbled on Friday, June 27, 2008 11:54 AM:
Just a quick question. I have been sharing CenOS 5.0 and 5.1 since I down loaded them. Now we are on to 5.2 is it still worth sharing them or can I archive them to DVD and save some hard drive space?
I removed my 5.1 torrents couple of days ago, and only kept the most release (5.2) recent seeding 24/7 at work.
Ppl still downloaded from them like crazy (had about 250kbps on each x64 and x86 DVD:s) on last monday for the past months or so, so you might want to seed those a bit longer if you can. Maybe I should keep seeding 5.1 as well for another while...
On Fri, 2008-06-27 at 12:35 +0200, Sorin@Gmail wrote:
John Bowden <> scribbled on Friday, June 27, 2008 11:54 AM:
Just a quick question. I have been sharing CenOS 5.0 and 5.1 since I down loaded them. Now we are on to 5.2 is it still worth sharing them or can I archive them to DVD and save some hard drive space?
I removed my 5.1 torrents couple of days ago, and only kept the most release (5.2) recent seeding 24/7 at work.
Ppl still downloaded from them like crazy (had about 250kbps on each x64 and x86 DVD:s) on last monday for the past months or so, so you might want to seed those a bit longer if you can. Maybe I should keep seeding 5.1 as well for another while...
I share the latest for a *long* time. During the period after major update release, I share only the latest. The rational for this is that the greatest demand will be for the latest, I have only a home connection with limited upload bandwidth and it is most beneficial allocated to where there is anticipated highest demand and greatest number of benefiting users.
After a while, I add back in older releases.
<snip sig stuff>
John Bowden wrote:
Hi Folks. Just a quick question. I have been sharing CenOS 5.0 and 5.1 since I down loaded them. Now we are on to 5.2 is it still worth sharing them or can I archive them to DVD and save some hard drive space? Regards John
We normally drop the torrents from the tracker around the time a new version is released so you should as well. Do you even see any traffic on these older torrents ?
By the way, I think we ( as a community ) should strongly discurage people from installing older software specially since the older stuff now has known and published widely bug's and potentially remote security issues. Ofcourse there are people who will, due to whatever reason, still want to get out there and install an older version - they are welcome to use the vault.centos.org machines.
- KB
On Friday 27 June 2008 16:00:44 Karanbir Singh wrote:
John Bowden wrote:
Hi Folks. Just a quick question. I have been sharing CenOS 5.0 and 5.1 since I down loaded them. Now we are on to 5.2 is it still worth sharing them or can I archive them to DVD and save some hard drive space? Regards John
We normally drop the torrents from the tracker around the time a new version is released so you should as well. Do you even see any traffic on these older torrents ?
By the way, I think we ( as a community ) should strongly discurage people from installing older software specially since the older stuff now has known and published widely bug's and potentially remote security issues. Ofcourse there are people who will, due to whatever reason, still want to get out there and install an older version - they are welcome to use the vault.centos.org machines.
- KB
CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Ok I will archive them in the morning and save some space. John
on 6-27-2008 8:00 AM Karanbir Singh spake the following:
John Bowden wrote:
Hi Folks. Just a quick question. I have been sharing CenOS 5.0 and 5.1 since I down loaded them. Now we are on to 5.2 is it still worth sharing them or can I archive them to DVD and save some hard drive space? Regards John
We normally drop the torrents from the tracker around the time a new version is released so you should as well. Do you even see any traffic on these older torrents ?
By the way, I think we ( as a community ) should strongly discurage people from installing older software specially since the older stuff now has known and published widely bug's and potentially remote security issues. Ofcourse there are people who will, due to whatever reason, still want to get out there and install an older version - they are welcome to use the vault.centos.org machines.
- KB
With exception to the people hit with the powernow glitch. They will never be able to install with a 5.2 cd or dvd since the installer kernels probably won't be changed unless by the slim chance that upstream does.
-
John Bowden -
Karanbir Singh -
Scott Silva -
Sorin＠Gmail -
William L. Maltby