Re: Tex-Live bittorrent sites?

["K. David Prince" <kdp@hanhet.loew.washington.edu>]

If you want to try a bittorrent download, you have to have a client that 
runs on your O/S.  A good one to try is to download the current Knoppix 
ISO image.  It is by far an excellent way to share large files AND 
"server" load.  In this case, the "server" is all the other machines that 
have bits of the file you're downloading (and uploading).  I usually let 
it run until I've uploaded at least as much as I've downloaded.  Your 
client will show you the up/down load statistics real time.  -kdp

On Wed, 9 Feb 2005, Karl Berry wrote:

>    Is there a bittorrent site for downloading the current version of
>    texlive?
>
> Not that I am aware of.  If you find one or can set one up, please email
> tex-live@tug.org with the info.
>
> For those who may not know -- Hans just asked me :) -- BitTorrent is a
> peer-to-peer system that lets big files be downloaded in small pieces
> from many different machines.  The client reassembles the pieces.  I
> haven't used it myself, although I've heard some good things about it.
> http://bittorrent.com/
>
> karl
>