On Wed, 2004-03-17 at 12:09, John Reiser wrote: > > Have you tried bittorrent? That deals nicely with slowdowns/corrupt > > files etc. > > > BTW Fedora Core 2 (test) is currently running @ 4 CDs > > And therein lies an inconvenience with bittorrent. The more common installs > (Personal Desktop, Software Development Workstation) require only the first > 2 or 3 CD images. Yet most torrents consist of all the images in a single > "bag", and it is not possible to rely on partial results being complete. > Stopping the download in the middle does not work, you must wait until > it is 100% finished before using any piece of it. True, but there's nothing stopping anyone from making BitTorrents for each CD separately. What I like about BitTorrent (besides the speed) is the data integrity: I know that when I have a completed download, it's identical to the server's copy. And the fact that I get to give something back to the community by the simple act of donating a bit of my bandwidth is just icing. Ben -- Ben Steeves _ bcs@xxxxxxxxxx The ASCII ribbon campaign ( ) ben.steeves@xxxxxx against HTML e-mail X GPG ID: 0xB3EBF1D9 http://www.metacon.ca/ascii / \ Yahoo Messenger: ben_steeves
