Unofficial FC4.2 released

[Kam Leo]

On 11/14/05, Hans Kristian Rosbach <hk at isphuset.no> wrote:
>
> > 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
>
>
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.
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