[ros-general] Torrents for ReactOS build environment

[Thomas Mueller]

from Colin Finck:

> Am 10.05.2020 um 18:01 schrieb Jo=C3=A3o Jer=C3=B3nimo:
> > So I decided to create a torrent
> > file for it and setup 2 seeds. The torrents can be downloaded from:
>=20
> > https://drive.google.com/open?id=3D1GXOF8TxQrmc4BiRPL4F8ZmqoCdFv9j-H
>=20
> > I think it would be good idea to share the torrents on the RosBE wiki
> > page, and maybe also create an official tracker to share ReactOS files,=

> > setup other seeds, etc. Sounds like a good idea?

> While I like people who take the initiative, I haven't seen torrents
> widely used for open source software distribution for at least a decade.
> Whenever I encounter a slow download these days, I can always choose an
> alternative mirror that is faster.

> SourceForge.net already offers quite a few mirrors. And even if all of
> them happen to be slow, we already have https://download.reactos.org
> I guess that is the URL which actually needs more advertising.


> Cheers,

> Colin

I believe Distrowatch weekly offers several torrents, but now git is the big thing for downloading from and tracking open-source software; there is also cvs, svn and mercurial (hg)

Last time I looked, ReactOS had the highest page-hit ranking of any non-Linux OS.

I have been idle on ReactOS because my hard drives are partitioned GPT, and ReactOS can not boot and install from USB.

I could try to download RosBE and cross-compile ReactOS from NetBSD or FreeBSD but would have no place to put the result if successful.

Bittorrent would of course not solve this problem.

Resending this message because I missed copying the Subject: line the first time.

Tom