From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/18200 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "K. David Prince" Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: Re: Tex-Live bittorrent sites? Date: Wed, 9 Feb 2005 08:58:10 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: References: <200502091509.j19F9Ol24481@f7.net> Reply-To: mailing list for ConTeXt users NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1107968418 28624 80.91.229.2 (9 Feb 2005 17:00:18 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 9 Feb 2005 17:00:18 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Wed Feb 09 18:00:17 2005 Original-Received: from ronja.vet.uu.nl ([131.211.172.88] helo=ronja.ntg.nl) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1CyvAU-0004OI-GC for gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org; Wed, 09 Feb 2005 17:58:22 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id CD35B12780; Wed, 9 Feb 2005 17:59:56 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from ronja.ntg.nl ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (ronja.vet.uu.nl [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 19383-02; Wed, 9 Feb 2005 17:59:56 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from ronja.vet.uu.nl (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id BE66B127A3; Wed, 9 Feb 2005 17:58:13 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from localhost (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id BF577127A3 for ; Wed, 9 Feb 2005 17:58:12 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from ronja.ntg.nl ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (ronja.vet.uu.nl [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 19319-03 for ; Wed, 9 Feb 2005 17:58:12 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from localhost (hanhet.loew.washington.edu [128.95.202.144]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id D4C9812780 for ; Wed, 9 Feb 2005 17:58:11 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from kdp (helo=localhost) by localhost with local-esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1CyvAI-0001c0-LB for ntg-context@ntg.nl; Wed, 09 Feb 2005 08:58:10 -0800 X-X-Sender: kdp@localhost Original-To: ConTeXt List In-Reply-To: <200502091509.j19F9Ol24481@f7.net> X-SA-Exim-Connect-IP: X-SA-Exim-Mail-From: kdp@hanhet.loew.washington.edu X-SA-Exim-Scanned: No (on localhost); SAEximRunCond expanded to false X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new at ntg.nl X-BeenThere: ntg-context@ntg.nl X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: mailing list for ConTeXt users List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Errors-To: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new at ntg.nl X-MailScanner-From: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl X-MailScanner-To: gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.comp.tex.context:18200 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.comp.tex.context:18200 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 >