For Release: January 23, 2005 The CentOS team is happy to announce the availability of CentOS-4.0 (Beta) for ia64. This product supports Intel Itanium2 processors. Downloading -- Bittorrent ------------------------- A bittorent for the DVD binary iso file is available from: http://beta.centos.org/centos/4.0beta/isos/ia64/CentOS-4-beta1-ia64-DVD.iso.torrent The source RPMS are available via bittorrent from: http://beta.centos.org/centos/4.0beta/isos/i386/CentOS-4.0-Beta-i386-src6-9.torrent Please use bittorrent and keep your downloader running for others to use even after the download completes. If you need some quick pointers for getting up to speed on bittorrent read: http://www.centos.org/modules/smartfaq/faq.php?faqid=24 Once again - please leave your downloader running after the download is complete (with ports 6881-6889 open) as your downloader will become part of the peer to peer bittorrent network and reduce the load on our mirror servers. Further information on bittorrent is available at http://bittorrent.com/ --------------------- NOTE: This is a Beta distribution and may not be suitable for use in production environments. Please add any errors or bugs you encounter to bugzilla on http://www.centos.org/bugs/ --------------------- NOTE: You must change your "/etc/sysconfig/rhn/sources" and your "/etc/yum.conf" files to point to the beta server. For examples of each of these files see: http://centos.HughesJR.com/build/ --------------------- To stay up to date with CentOS join the CentOS mailing list at http://lists.caosity.org/mailman/listinfo/centos/ Join #centos at irc.freenode.net Or participate in the web forums at http://www.centos.org/ Enjoy, The CentOS Team Johnny Hughes CentOS 4 Release Manager