[CentOS] CentOS 5 and bittorrent

Thu Apr 12 17:37:06 UTC 2007
Stephen Harris <lists at spuddy.org>

John Hinton wrote:
> 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.

When there's an official announcement and a torrent link shows up on
the centos website then I'll add my machine to the feed (it's a v-colo
machine at an ISP; I have 100Gb/month xfer so I should be able to help out
a bit), but I don't want to waste my bandwidth on unannounced potentially
broken unfinalised images.  Mostly likely what you are downloading now
is the final version, but since it hasn't been announced there _could_
be a last minute change.

I strongly suggest people wait for an official announcement and then
use that torrent.  That's what I'm gonna do!

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rgds
Stephen