[Live-demo] Downloading via BitTorrent?

Hamish hamish_b at yahoo.com
Thu Jul 5 14:56:32 PDT 2012


John wrote:
> ibiblio (part of the University. of NC, Chapel Hill) is home
> to a lot of Linux distributions and various open source software
> packages.
> We've recently increased our capacity for hosting and
> distributing large files by using BitTorrent.  Would the
> osgeo-live community be interested in adding BT as a download
> method for the osgeo-live images?  If you're familiar with BT,
> our system has a seeding server that is as reliable as a web
> server.  I uploaded the current and past couple of releases.
> 
> http://terasaur.org/item/show/osgeo-live-5-5/6519
> http://terasaur.org/search?query=osgeo
> 
> Comments and questions are welcome.  By the way, completed
> downloads counts are available.  Click the "Downloads" link
> just above the list towards the bottom of the details page.

Hi John,

probably Alex is the one to talk to, see our previous (short)
conversation after your last approach,
  http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.gis.osgeo.livedemo/2871


and some other torrent idea threads,
  http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.gis.osgeo.livedemo/432
  http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.gis.osgeo.livedemo/981
  http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.gis.osgeo.livedemo/3338


thanks!
Hamish


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