Dare I ask the question?

[James McKenzie]

Paul:

Is the Torrent incorporated with FC, or is it something that I have to 
get at another location?  If the latter applies, how about a source?

Thank you.

James McKenzie


Paul Howarth wrote:

>On Fri, 2004-10-29 at 04:51, James McKenzie wrote:
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>>I think that the Torrent is great for large software releases, such as 
>>Fedora Core or OpenOffice, as it spreads the stress across the network 
>>and I think that Fedora Core 2 was on the torrent about a week after 
>>release.
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>Torrents for the FC3 test releases were available at
>http://torrent.linux.duke.edu/ from mid-afternoon UTC (i.e. in the
>morning US time) on their official release dates. I expect the same to
>be true of the FC3 final release on 8th November. For me, BitTorrent is
>not only faster than an ftp/http download but also more reliable, since
>each chunk of 1MB or so gets CRC checked as soon as it is downloaded, so
>there's never a worry about getting a bad download, as long as the
>original source of the torrent can be trusted, which in duke.edu's case
>is a pretty safe assumption.
>
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>>I usually get the original release after a few folks have 
>>retrieved it and installed
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>Sound advice; let other people find the nasty problems ;-)
>
>Paul.
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