TUCOWS BSD Launched

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 [e-mail]).

Re:ISOs Needed!!

[Anonymous Coward]

Are you saying that you don't know about mirrors for FreeBSD stuff? Try ftp.xx.freebsd.org where xx is your country code (e.g. ftp.de.freebsd.org for germany). There are loads of mirrors! By the way, I also think that downloading ISO's is a waste of bandwith and time. So much more easy to generate locally.

ISOs Needed!!

[Anonymous Coward]

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!

RPM vs tar.gz and some commercial stuff.

[Simon Carr]

There is a lot of overlap in the libraries, and I think it's going to continue that way. Mostly for people who are squeamish about typing

> make ; make install

:) Also, Linux packages are more and more frequently distributed in RPM format.

Re:ISOs Needed!!

[JunkMale]

I guess you haven't see this website:

http://www.itworks.com.au/~gavin/FBSDsites.php3

It lists all official FreeBSD mirrors

...with Freshports

[questionlp]

It's nice to see that BSD is getting more attention by the bigger companies. It's also nice to have sites that track software and provides ways to easily download them.

Most of the stuff found at bsd.tucows.com is also available at Freshports.org [freshports.org] and in the BSD ports collection.

Re:I don't get it

[scruffyMark]

I'm probably not telling you anything you don't know, but NetBSD is binary compatible with FreeBSD and Linux, at least on x86

Re:ISOs Needed!!

[jhix]

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.

As (un)wonderful as Tucows Linux?

[brank]

Will this site be as wonderful as the Linux one? Personally, I find the Web interface clumsy and virtually unusable (I use ftp.linuxberg.com [linuxberg.com] instead of going through the web). What's more, many of the catagories have little or no software. The ISOs and dist archives are neat, but I think that Tucows staff might want to spend a few days checking freshmeat's appindex and downloading some software in order to flesh out some of their catagories.

Not to complain too much, it's a great site when it has what you need. But sometimes what you need isn't there, even if there's a whole catagory for it. I know how the archive's supposed to work, but in some places it's a bit spotty. I hope that the staff could devote some time to adding programs themselves while they're launching a new archive.

tucows responsive to requests!!

[omission9]

Subject:
Re: Support for NetBSD/mac68k & NetBSD/macPPC
Date:
Fri, 30 Jun 2000 15:29:14 -0400
From:
"Arthur H. Johnson II"
To:
Adam Russell
References:
1

Thankyou for the suggestion. I will impliment that as soon as the i386 project
is completed.

On Fri, 30 Jun 2000, you wrote:
> Why not also support NetBSD for the second most well represented
> consumer architecture?
> Best Regards,