[Live-demo] Fw: Torrent tracker

[Alex Mandel]

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