[CentOS] Re: CentOS 5 and bittorrent

Thu Apr 12 18:49:14 UTC 2007
Scott Moseman <scmoseman at gmail.com>

On 4/12/07, Scott Silva <ssilva at sgvwater.com> wrote:
> 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.
>

The CentOS has an announcement for 5.0 listed.

Scott