BITTORRENT LINKS : "And Aholibamah bare Jeush, and Jaalam, and Korah: these were the borogoves..."** Make your vote count. Get your vote counted.Went to alt.bittorrent to see what it was. Looks like a bunch of kidstrading video games and TV shows in ways the original copyrightholders probably don't appreciate.It's a file sharing program, yes. And I don't doubt that some stuff getsdistributed on it that shouldn't. But if all the game authors for thecomp have agreed to let their games be distributed, what's the differencebetween downloading it from someone's ftp/web site or getting it fromanother person who's already downloaded it to their computer? You know,file sharing programs aren't inherently bad just because many people douse them for illegal practices. I don't see any problem with using ithere for distrubuting games that the authors want distributed.Does that mean that http isn't used by this bunch of kids to trade videogames and TV shows in ways the original copyright holders probably don'tappreciate? I don't think so. BITTORRENT LINKS : And if the organizer explains that he would appreciate it if you useBitTorrent since it removes the load from the Archive and its mirror, it'sonly fair to do it this way. Downloading the large zip was a matter ofseconds with it.(I'm afraid this is a very long message. I hope you don't mind.)Unfortunately Stephen failed to provide a proper explanation forwhat BitTorrent is, and neither the mammoth FAQ he linked to, norit seems the alt.bittorrent newsgroup you went to, are good waysto get acquainted.BitTorrent is simply a peer-to-peer technology that helps preventor a least relieve a problem that has plagued the Internet sincethe beginning: flash crowds, such as the thousands of users whosuddenly go to a site because it was linked from a popularweblog, or the tens of thousands of gamers who suddenly start todownload that latest demo for a long awaited megaproduction, orthe hundreds of thousands of people who suddenly start todownload the trailer for the last Lord of the Rings movie, or ofcourse, the hundreds of IF fans who suddenly go to ifcomp.org todownload the latest IFComp games. BITTORRENT LINKS : While movie studios may have pockets deep enough to pay for thegigantic amount of bandwith necessary to sustain such crowds,most other operations--small companies, non-profit organizationsor individuals--do not. When they get flooded, their web sitesslow down to a crawl, or are simply shut down because theirmonthly bandwidth allocation has been exceeded... by far. This iswhere BitTorrent comes into play: it helps distributors of bigfiles to deal with the flash crowd problem.How does it work? It's very simple. All Internet connections cansend and receive data, but when you surf, you usually downloadmuch more data than you send. This is especially true when youdownload a big file: oftentimes, you go away from the PC, or atleast stop surfing while the download is in progress; during thattime, you send almost no data. This is what BitTorrent uses tohelp distributing files: With BitTorrent, while you download a file, you also send the parts you already have to other users who need them. BITTORRENT LINKS : Bandwidth at the FreeBSD servers is still an issue, though, and theISOs probably take *more* bandwidth, because an awful lot of peoplewould download *all* of them whether they really needed them or not.Even if they *did* need them, they might be downloading a whole ISOimage for the sake of one package.The reason the multiple images are gone, though, is the effort neededto make them, combined with the amount of storage space to hold themfor an expanding number of architectures. I got my FreeBSD 5.1 images via bittorrent links, which is nice asthis does not contribute to the hammering of the FreeBSD servers:(I did verify the MD5sums with those from the FreeBSD website, though,as digital signatures don't seem to exist.) And, yes, I downloaded allthree, even though I'll probably never use the mini ISO image. I'm notgoing to worry about the "bandwidth", as no bandwidth from the FreeBSDsites was consumed (except for grabbing the MD5sums). BITTORRENT LINKS : I just started the bittorrent download before going to sleep, andeverything was done by the time I awoke (this also has the nice sideeffect of sharing my downloaded bits with everyone else, at least untilI awoke and killed the bittorrent process).I'm a FreeBSD newbie. I'm running 5.0. What is cvsup. Will a man help.Sounds the perfect thing for me. I was looking at the upgrade option ofsysinstall to keep me up to date, is this the way to go?On Tue, 10 Jun 2003 23:12:35 +0100, "S. Anthony Sequeira" wrote:The best explanation I can offer is a repeat of a message I firstposted last December (I think I should just plan on reposting thissucker on a regular basis):================================= =====================Back when 4.7 first came out (in the window between CVS lockdown andthe ISO images becoming available), I updated the source files on oneof my BSD boxes (a 233MHz Pentium w/ 64MB of DRAM running FreeBSD 4.5)by installing cvsup, copying the example supfiles to /root and thenkeying in:
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