[CentOS] Re: CentOS 5 and bittorrent

Thu Apr 12 18:38:48 UTC 2007
Scott Silva <ssilva at sgvwater.com>

Stephen Harris spake the following on 4/12/2007 10:37 AM:
> 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!
> 
I'm guessing that the announcement is being held back until all the mirrors
are up to speed. That could take a day or so.

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