Re: Unofficial FC4.2 released

> On Saturday 12 November 2005 00:53, Craig White wrote:
> >I think by and large, most people already have fedora installed or will
> >download it from official sources and that there aren't all that many
> >people interested in downloading this or don't know about it.

On Sat, 2005-11-12 at 07:52 -0500, Gene Heskett wrote:
> I did go back to a 19.5k upload speed for about 15 minutes after that,
> but its been zero again most of the night, so I guess I'll shut it down
> now.  Maybe everyone interested has now leached their copy?

Problem is probably not that people don't want to download it, it's more
likely that word hasn't spread wide enough. I haven't gotten any reports
of coverage in news articles this time.

My announcement on this high-volume mailing list has reached a lot of
people. But on the whole, not that many read this list thoroughly if at
all subscribed.

So far, FC4.2 download counts:
i386:   36 done, 0 downloading, 6 seeding
x86-64: 12 done, 1 downloading, 3 seeding
(In addition there might be a few more not able/choosing not to contact
the tracker, but still downloading from other clients.

In general I expect there to still be a demand for these downloads for
a long time. What I have noticed is that there is still a demand for
FC4.1, likely due to other sites linking directly to the torrent
file. Oh well, too bad those users don't see the front page with FC4.2.

I'm also happy to say that it seems that both images are good, and does
install nicely. Although the feedback has been very sparse so far.
Maybe I'll make a one-liner for the front page, like on good old BBS
systems.

Gene: Thank you for helping seed, it seems that only about 10-15% show
      their appreciation by seeding at least as much as downloaded.
      The more people seeding, the less bandwidth for each seeder is
      used. So even if it is idle most of the time, that just means
      that there is no down-side to leaving it seeding. =)

-HK