[ros-general] Torrents for ReactOS build environment

[Devel]

Hello.


It depends. At the time that I created the torrent, the official 
download source was too slow, therefore taking a lot of time.

But maybe I did not explore all alternatives at the time.


Regards,

João Jerónimo



Às 18:48 de 04/01/2021, Javier Fernández Arroyo escreveu:
> no, it didn´t 😉
> I agree with Aleksey, it does not matter for light software such as BE
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> *De:* Ros-general <ros-general-bounces at reactos.org> en nombre de 
> Aleksey Bragin <aleksey at reactos.org>
> *Enviado:* lunes, 4 de enero de 2021 17:14
> *Para:* ros-general at reactos.org <ros-general at reactos.org>
> *Asunto:* Re: [ros-general] Torrents for ReactOS build environment
> What's the advantage?
> I think download speed, but that matters for large images (like Debian
> indeed). Unless ReactOS became huge when I didn't watch it close 
> enough :-)
>
> Regards,
> Aleksey Bragin
>
> On 1/4/2021 12:39 PM, Frank Van Damme wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > A couple of major Linux distributions ofer bittorrent downloads as 
> an option.
> >
> > https://linuxmint.com/edition.php?id=281 
> <https://linuxmint.com/edition.php?id=281> Torrent listed before iso link
> > https://ubuntu.com/download/alternative-downloads 
> <https://ubuntu.com/download/alternative-downloads> -> scroll down for 
> bittorrent
> > https://www.debian.org/distrib/ <https://www.debian.org/distrib/> -> 
> small print under "Download an
> > installation image"
> > http://ftp.belnet.be/mirror/ftp.centos.org/8.3.2011/isos/x86_64/ 
> <http://ftp.belnet.be/mirror/ftp.centos.org/8.3.2011/isos/x86_64/> -> of
> > course these are iso images to be found but there is a torrent file as
> > well
> >
> > Greetings,
> >
> > Op zo 10 mei 2020 om 19:38 schreef Colin Finck <colin at reactos.org>:
> >> Am 10.05.2020 um 18:01 schrieb João Jerónimo:
> >>> So I decided to create a torrent
> >>> file for it and setup 2 seeds. The torrents can be downloaded from:
> >>>
> >>> https://drive.google.com/open?id=1GXOF8TxQrmc4BiRPL4F8ZmqoCdFv9j-H 
> <https://drive.google.com/open?id=1GXOF8TxQrmc4BiRPL4F8ZmqoCdFv9j-H>
> >>>
> >>> 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 <https://download.reactos.org>
> >> I guess that is the URL which actually needs more advertising.
> >>
> >>
> >> Cheers,
> >>
> >> Colin
> >>
>
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