On Tue, 2007-02-27 at 14:22 -0800, Kam Leo wrote: > On 2/27/07, Aaron Konstam <akonstam@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > On Mon, 2007-02-26 at 13:24 -0800, Kam Leo wrote: > > > > > > > > > So am I conclude that >10 hours may be what it will take. How do oyu > > > > find out how many seeders are active? > > > > -- > > > > > > Use Azureus. It shows the number of seeders and peers connected to > > > your swarm. > > I used Azureus and it still looks like it would take >10 hours to > > download. Which seems to me to be less (or about the same time) as would > > take to update the original distribution using yum. So it does not look > > worthwhile to download the FC6 respin. > > If you take a close look at "real time" stats posted on Fedora Unity's > site it is easy to see that usage of bittorrent makes no sense. Beyond > the initial availability announcement period there are not enough > seeders or peers to make downloading a short lived release worthwhile. > What these folks need to do is convince Fedora Core or other sites to > host their respin. I agree. -- ======================================================================= "We scientists, whose tragic destiny it has been to make the methods of annihilation ever more gruesome and more effective, must consider it our solemn and transcendent duty to do all in our power in preventing these weapons from being used for the brutal purpose for which they were invented." -- Albert Einstein, Bulletin of Atomic Scientists, September 1948 ======================================================================= Aaron Konstam telephone: (210) 656-0355 e-mail: akonstam@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
