[Live-demo] Fw: Torrent tracker

[Angelos Tzotsos]

Hi Alex,

I maintain a server in my office with very high internet capacity. I 
would be happy to seed the torrent file (or host a mirror).

Regards,
Angelos

On 12/15/2010 01:24 AM, Alex Mandel wrote:
> On 12/14/2010 03:13 PM, Alex Mandel wrote:
>> On 12/14/2010 02:51 PM, Hamish wrote:
>>>> From: Markus Neteler
>>>> Subject: Re: [GRASS-user] Suggestions sought!
>>>> To: "Hamish"
>>>> Cc: "GRASS user list"
>>>> Date: Tuesday, December 14, 2010, 6:02 AM
>>>>
>>>> On Fri, Sep 18, 2009 at 4:36 AM, Hamish wrote:
>>>>> http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Live_GIS_Disc
>>>>> https://trac.osgeo.org/osgeo/browser/livedvd/gisvm/trunk/bin/
>>>>> http://download.osgeo.org/livedvd/
>>>>>
>>>>> there is no torrent tracker yet set up for the DVD images,
>>>>> but if anyone has experience on how to set up that sort of
>>>>> thing please introduce yourself on the live-demo mailing
>>>>> list.
>>> ...
>>>> On Dec 15, 2010 Markus wrote:
>>>> We got his offer from ibiblio.org (pls forward to the
>>>> live-demo mailing list.):
>>>>
>>>> On Mon, Dec 13, 2010 at 11:55 PM, John Reuning<john at ibiblio.org>
>>>> wrote:
>>>> ...
>>>>> I also wanted to open a dialog about using BitTorrent for
>>>>> distribution.  ibiblio has a torrent site that we use for
>>>>> other projects.  http://torrent.ibiblio.org/  One of
>>>>> our goals for the next several months is to add more
>>>>> projects.  The grass software and gis sample data sets look
>>>>> like great candidates.  We have search/browse as well as
>>>>> seeding software designed for server use.  The torrents
>>>>> should never go stale as long as you intend to distribute
>>>>> the content.
>>>>>
>>>>> If you're interested, we'll make the files available and
>>>>> provide you links for your web pages.  In future updates to
>>>>> the web site, we plan to add self-service tools for you to
>>>>> take control over your content.
>>>>>
>>>>> Thanks,
>>>>>
>>>>> -John R.
>>>> cheers
>>>> Markus
>>>
>>> Yes, that sounds very useful!
>>> Our DVD ISO-image downloads are here:
>>>    http://live.osgeo.org/download.html
>>>
>>>
>>> (for those of you in the game long enough to remember the old
>>> days, Ibiblio is the former&  most famous Sunsite FTP repo,
>>>   http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ibiblio )
>>>
>>>
>>> regards,
>>> Hamish
>>>
>> If you remember correctly I did do a torrent for version 3. Decided not
>> to do one for version 4 partly because we didn't have enough mirrors but
>> also because there was little demand (only about 120 downloads total)
>> compared to the regular download.
>>
>> Currently the ISO downloads are managed by me using mirrorbrain as I
>> mentioned on the geodata list earlier today. We also have 3 mirrors up
>> right now, 2 in the US and 1 in Germany. I would be more than happy to
>> add additional mirrors&  torrents to the configuration.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Alex
> A follow up note, in the past we used the several public torrent
> trackers rather than having to host our own. See the wiki for details
> http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Live_GIS_Build#Creating_a_torrent_file
>
> Thanks,
> Alex
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Angelos Tzotsos
Remote Sensing Laboratory
National Technical University of Athens
http://users.ntua.gr/tzotsos