Subject: Re: 2.0 snapshot BitTorrents
To: NetBSD/sparc64 mailing list <port-sparc64@NetBSD.org>
From: George Adkins <george@webbastard.org>
List: port-sparc64
Date: 10/20/2004 23:58:52
> To test a few things out prior to the 2.0 release, I have made the
> 2004-10-16 binary snapshot of NetBSD-2.0 available by BitTorrent, for
> the i386, sparc64, alpha, amd64, and macppc ports (and the source sets
> as well).
>
> This is a _one time_ experiment; we are almost certainly not going to
> make all architectures or all snapshots available by BitTorrent because
> it's just impractical; thousands of file descriptors and hundreds of
> server processes would be required.
why not just offer ISO images, one file each arch?
--
George