what's up with distributing gentoo via torrent?

m@o

hey!

i was looking for a gentoo iso to download via torrent,
and what i found was this rather outdated gentoo torrent site (http://torrents.gentoo.org/)

i don't get why one would not try to let the users help distribute gentoo.
some recent torrents would be nice. include a magnet link.

i'll seed.

greetz
m@o

Etal · Veteran Joined: 15 Jul 2005 Posts: 1931

The problem is that no one actually seeds, and those who want to, find that downloading from a mirror is much faster and so they don't seed either.

The reason is that unlike the other distros, there isn't a big surge of downloaders once a new version of a liveCD is released, so there isn't a big number of people who would start to download the torrent to generate the critical mass needed to make the torrent fast enough to be useful.

I'm surprised there are iso's from 2008; I thought they stopped making torrents much earlier...
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m@o · Posted: Mon Feb 21, 2011 3:46 pm Post subject:

it's kind of sad that the gentoo community can't reach this critical mass...

but since the last torrent was from 2008 i think maybe 3 years later another try could be made...

Gusar · Posted: Mon Feb 21, 2011 3:52 pm Post subject:

m@o · Posted: Mon Feb 21, 2011 3:58 pm Post subject:

yes. true. that's a factor for sure.

thanks for the clarification.

Etal · Veteran Joined: 15 Jul 2005 Posts: 1931

Furthermore, I'm sure a significant percentage of Gentoo users don't even use the Gentoo LiveCD to install Gentoo, since you could use pretty much any liveCD for the purpose

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