On Fri, 2004-10-29 at 04:51, James McKenzie wrote: > 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. 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. > I usually get the original release after a few folks have > retrieved it and installed Sound advice; let other people find the nasty problems ;-) Paul. -- Paul Howarth <paul@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
