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TUCOWS BSD Launched

Posted by Nik on from the ...and-a-partridge-in-a-pear-tree dept.

Several Anonymous Cowards have written in with the news that bsd.tucows.com has gone live. Currently they only cover FreeBSD on i386, but they say that i386 Net and OpenBSD support is in the works, with other architectures to be tackled if there's demand (requests to ajohnson@tucows.com).

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  1. ISOs Needed!! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3

    PLEASE...if any tucows people are reading this, put up a reliable ISO archive like you have for linux. When I want to download slackware, tucows is always fast (it wasn't listed on slackware.com though, no mirrors were :(

    With the *BSDs, we don't have nearly as much bandwidth or choice of servers.

    Sure NetBSD has official ISOs out, but have you tried downloading them? It took me 4 straight days to get the ISO, and I'm on a fast cable modem. OpenBSD, the unofficial ISOs are perfectly legal. The only thing copyrighted is the actual ISO layout. So if you do it just a little different, then all is well. FreeBSD, even though they have ftp.freebsd.org, it's always very very slow.

    And slackware, speaking of that, I was downloading 7.1 ISO and it was taking about 150 hours to complete until ftp.freesoftware.com went down.

    We *NEED* stable, reliable, fast FTP servers for ISO images. Please provide us with this basic necessity!

    1. Re:ISOs Needed!! by jhix · · Score: 3

      Many *BSD users don't use the ISO's and consider downloading them with each release a shameful abuse of network bandwidth. It's really not necessary to download ISO's. The binary installations provide one with everything needed to bootstrap and regenerate ISO's locally from source. In the time it took you to download the Slack ISO image I can generate three different FreeBSD ISO's locally building from source code with about a tenth of the network usage.