Downloading FreeBSD

Tue Oct 5 17:05:53 PDT 2004

On 2004-10-05 16:35, nbco <nbco at screaming.net> wrote:
> On Tuesday 05 October 2004 17:08, Giorgos Keramidas wrote:
> > I'm asking because I don't know:
> >
> > a) What a bittorrent tracker is.
> > b) What it takes to install and set up one.
> > c) Why would I prefer it over FTP/CVSup?
> >
> > Your reply to c) seems to be "to save bandwidth".  The next logical
> > question is "how is bandwidth saved and who is it saved from"?

> Bittorrent is a type of p2p protocol: http://bittorrent.com/introduction.html

Ah, I see.  Many thanks...