On 11/14/05, Hans Kristian Rosbach <<a href="mailto:hk@isphuset.no">hk@isphuset.no</a>> wrote:<div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> > On Saturday 12 November 2005 00:53, Craig White wrote: > >I think by and large, most people already have fedora installed or will > >download it from official sources and that there aren't all that many > >people interested in downloading this or don't know about it. On Sat, 2005-11-12 at 07:52 -0500, Gene Heskett wrote: > I did go back to a 19.5k upload speed for about 15 minutes after that, > but its been zero again most of the night, so I guess I'll shut it down > now. Maybe everyone interested has now leached their copy? Problem is probably not that people don't want to download it, it's more likely that word hasn't spread wide enough. I haven't gotten any reports of coverage in news articles this time. My announcement on this high-volume mailing list has reached a lot of people. But on the whole, not that many read this list thoroughly if at all subscribed. So far, FC4.2 download counts: i386: 36 done, 0 downloading, 6 seeding x86-64: 12 done, 1 downloading, 3 seeding (In addition there might be a few more not able/choosing not to contact the tracker, but still downloading from other clients. In general I expect there to still be a demand for these downloads for a long time. What I have noticed is that there is still a demand for FC4.1, likely due to other sites linking directly to the torrent file. Oh well, too bad those users don't see the front page with FC4.2. I'm also happy to say that it seems that both images are good, and does install nicely. Although the feedback has been very sparse so far. Maybe I'll make a one-liner for the front page, like on good old BBS systems. Gene: Thank you for helping seed, it seems that only about 10-15% show their appreciation by seeding at least as much as downloaded. The more people seeding, the less bandwidth for each seeder is used. So even if it is idle most of the time, that just means that there is no down-side to leaving it seeding. =) -HK </blockquote></div> I just noticed the announcement on the list. I tried to download the files but it looks like the torrent is dead. There are 8 seeds and 1 peer, none of which to connect.