Just a small way to help people get their FOSS. What are some other projects that have torrents that would be good to seed?
oh yeah torrenting them linux isos
netbsd.org will love that
Does anybody download iso’s via torrents? Or how to help the actual sites that serve these? Since I trust the source more than torrents… Especially for an image…
You grab the .torrent file from the source website (Mint, in this case) and it’s safe
Ahh makes sense. I still direct download but I guess if I had Torrent client locally it might be nice. But 3-4GiB on direct download doesn’t take long…
It doesn’t, but thousands of people all downloading 3-4GB from the same site will put more load on the site. Torrents avoid this issue by downloading little bits from lots of different peers
It’s more of a way to reduce costs for the CDN, using torrents everyone contributes and they only have to send a small magnet file.
I might seed a few too then.
For many with unstable ISP connections, http downloads can get corrupted. Torrents are superior in this regard as the file gets split into blocks that each get checksummed for integrity after completion. This helps to ensure that the large iso is actually complete and won’t just be garbage on an attempted install. Even if you checksum the iso from http download, you have to pull the entire thing again if it is damaged whereas the torrent would just repull the damaged blocks automatically.
Fair. That is a good usecase
I prefer to download isos via torrents. You can easily check the checksum and signature once it’s downloaded. And you’re getting the torrent/magnet link/etc from the source so it’s not some random torrent from piratebay or something lmao
Why not direct download from website?
Avoid detracting from the hosts bandwidth quota.
I think it saves them costs but idk shit about servers
Can be faster than downloading from a centralised server that everyone is trying to download from. But mostly just habit.
Verifiying the checksum of an iso takes 30 seconds… You don’t need to trust anyone
I don’t think that is even necessary. If you download the .torrent file from a trusted source it will already contain a secure hash of the final file. Also every piece you receive also comes with a hash that can also be verified through the .torrent file. If you don’t trust the source enough to provide a valid .torrent, I don’t see how downloading the image directly from them makes any difference. Read more: Official BitTorrent BEP BitTorrent V2 and SHA-256
Been on Linux 6 years, never done it. Extra steps
Length of time never means quality of decisions. Always best to validate. So easy to package up malware and farm folks bank accounts.
Hence my threat model hasn’t included torrents.
Well you do need to trust the checksum provided. That is the one you are checking against. Better would be a signature from a key you trust.
In the end a modern torrent is just a hash.
Checksum doesn’t verify authenticity. You need to verify the signature
EndeavourOS
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You can take a look here: https://fosstorrents.com/
Be sure to check the checksum after downloading and check if the release is somehow up to date. They only list raspberry pi os images older than a year
300TBs of zip bombs
Always put it in a new dir after download
The Rotating Food Gifs Collection 1-5
Do you have a link to this torrent? I am very interested.
OpenStreetMap: https://planet.openstreetmap.org/
Nice one!
new House of the Dragon episodes
Based
Anna’s Archive can always use help
Is it legal? There may be alternatives with plausible deniability.
Don’t know, I’m not up on copyright law.
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You’re not seeding properly, check your upload settings or try qBittorrent.
OP has acceptable seed ratio on the files near the bottom.
I’m guessing these are all just very recent.
Not FOSS, but a library/archive: https://annas-archive.org/torrents
Popular Linux ISOs are usually mirrored across a lot of mirrors (duh), so availability is already very good.
For projects that is on git system, better automate mirroring to your self hosted git alternative
I’m seeding this 24/7. Feel free to join in.
Patriot Front Fascist Leak Exposes Nationwide Racist Campaigns
https://vault.unicornriot.ninja/patriotfrontleaks/patriotfront-repack.torrent
