On Thu, Sep 22, 2011 at 07:23:34PM -0700, Richards, Toby wrote:
| I have noticed that OpenBSD.org doesn't offer up a torrent as a way
| to obtain the install ISO's or other files. I have found that the
| quickest way to download a large ISO of certain other operating
| systems is by the torrent on their site. Sure, there are third party
| torrents. Sure, I could ensure that the file I download hasn't been
| tampered with via some sort of hash. I still think that an official
| torrent would not only benefit OpenBSD users, but also benefit
| OpenBSD itself in the form of reduced bandwidth costs.
|
| Or am I missing something where distributing your operating system
| (to include the expected hash result) via P2P is somehow insecure?
I doubt torrents would be any faster than FTP or HTTP downloads. My
local mirror fills my internet connection 100% when downloading
installXX.iso; it's not gonna get much faster than that.
Paul 'WEiRD' de Weerd
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