Hi everybody, We don't usually announce developemnt versions of Kinneret in the first week after it's available so that we can spend some more time on QA.
However, we are going to have an exception this time because this is not just another new release, it's the first time we try to make it available via BitTorrent. We have planned for using BitTorrent for quite some time, but the latest "slashtot effect" following the article in Maariv made us realize we have to check this promising technology not only for internal distribution, but to test it at large scale. So I would like to invite everybody to install BitTorrent and help in this test. You'll also be getting GNU/Linux Kinneret 0.7.2 that we hope will be our best release yet. Some of the highlights you can expect are a choice between KDE/XFce, a new look, The Swimming Guide has new manuals such as for OpenOffice (from www.xslf.com), a set of useful plugins for Firebird (0.7) etc. SO HOW TO GET STARTED? 1. Install BitTorrent - http://bitconjurer.org/BitTorrent/download.html - this is a set of python scripts so no compilation is needed. You can also find pre-built packages for your distro (apt-get, urpmi...) 2. Open ports: 6881 through 6889, 6969 These are needed for BitTorrent to work efficiently. Note that if you don't open these, you will be plain leechers and not share your upload capacity with the rest of the downloaders. 3. Get the torrent file from here: http://tracker.linux-kinneret.org/ 4. Start the download, this is for the GUI mode: btdownloadgui.py Kinneret-0.7.2.iso.torrent & 5. Once you finish download, DO NOT CLOSE THE APP so that others can download from you. btw, expect a slow start, but if we get many downloaders (especially with a LOT of uplink bandwidth) it should get better later on. __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Get better spam protection with Yahoo! Mail. http://antispam.yahoo.com/tools ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
