What else should I help seed?
What else should I help seed?
Just a small way to help people get their FOSS. What are some other projects that have torrents that would be good to seed?
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.
You're not seeding properly, check your upload settings or try qBittorrent.
OP has acceptable seed ratio on the files near the bottom.
The Rotating Food Gifs Collection 1-5
You can take a look here: https://fosstorrents.com/
Wikipedia torrents from kiwix
At 16kb/s per connection , I think you have to ask yourself if you’re really helping. Have you checked your settings that you aren’t limiting your upload speeds?
Edit: people seem to be offended by this comment, so let me clarify by what I meant with “are you really helping”.
Torrent clients default to a fixed number of peers they download from. If you end up with only 16kb/s connections, you are being limited by those seeders in how fast you can download.
Whereas if there were less seeders but they could provide 1mb/s connections, you are limited by your own internet connection and are downloading full blast.
I hope that clarifies my statement.
Torrent clients are usually smart enough to decide what the best seeders are to get the best possible availability and throughput.
OP seeding at 16 KB/s to some peers might also just mean that the leecher's bandwidth is mostly saturated by other peers so they don't need that much bandwidth from OP.
I'd rather have a 16kb/s seeder than a dead torrent
For real. I’m slowly downloading a documentary from one person right now, it’s been a few weeks and it’ll be a few more, but I thank them for it
At 16kb/s per connection , I think you have to ask yourself if you’re really helping
That's a rather toxic mentality to have. Any amount of help is always appreciated.
Asking someone to check their settings is a toxic mentality?
You'd be surprised to know that a 500GB hard drive can be theoretically copied in 1 year with a 16kb/s transfer.
EndeavourOS
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..
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
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.
Been on Linux 6 years, never done it. Extra steps
netbsd.org will love that
300TBs of zip bombs