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From: Luke-Jr <luke-jr@g.o>
To: Troy Dack <troy@××××××.com>, "gentoo-dev@g.o" <gentoo-dev@g.o>
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Gentoo 1.4 Release - Unofficial .torrents
Date: Wed, 06 Aug 2003 01:12:48
Message-Id: 200308060112.38929.luke-jr@gentoo.org
In Reply to: [gentoo-dev] Gentoo 1.4 Release - Unofficial .torrents by Troy Dack
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4 Just wanted to note that as BitTorrent is interpreted, not compiled, disabling
5 X/gtk has virtually no effect on speed...
6
7 On Tuesday 05 August 2003 08:55 pm, Troy Dack wrote:
8 > Som unofficial (ie: if they break you get to keep both pieces) torrents
9 > have been set up by Luke-Jr to aid in the distribution of the Gentoo 1.4
10 > Release.
11 >
12 > If you want to help out (or if you just want an alternate method of
13 > grabbing the 1.4 release please visit:
14 >
15 > http://dev.gentoo.org/~luke-jr/torrent/gentoo-1.4
16 >
17 > If you are running a Windows BitTorrent client then I think clicking on
18 > a .torrent link in your browser should fire up the client automatically.
19 >
20 > If you are running a Linux client then you may have to right-click
21 > download the .torrent file and then do something like:
22 >
23 > btdownloadcurses.py athlon-xp-1.4-20030731-cd1.iso.torrent
24 >
25 > For all your BitTorrent clients visit:
26 > http://bitconjurer.org/BitTorrent
27 >
28 > If you are already running Gentoo, then it is simply a matter of:
29 > emerge bittorrent
30 >
31 > (and for those that want it a bit quicker, add USE="-X" at the beginning
32 > to stop the gtk client being built)
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35 Luke-Jr
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