tracker for distributing a talking ISO via BitTorrent?

[Jayson Smith]

Hi Tony,

     Just curious, what type of archive are you trying to distribute? Write 
off-list if you wish.
Jayson

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Tony Baechler" <tony at baechler.net>
To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
Sent: Monday, December 08, 2008 5:52 AM
Subject: Re: tracker for distributing a talking ISO via BitTorrent?


> Hi,
>
> I would suggest looking into ibiblio.org.  They specialize in Linux 
> distros among other things.  I know that the Project Gutenberg DVD images 
> are available through them, or at least I think they host the torrents. 
> Also, you should still consider some kind of ftp or web site for download, 
> such as hosting it on linux-speakup.org if Kirk lets you.  There are many 
> people who can't or won't use torrents for various reasons.  Other than 
> that, there are various public trackers but most will have the CAPTIA. 
> You could try thepiratebay.org which I think is open, meaning that I don't 
> think you have to register to use them.  Other than that, I know that 
> trackers aren't that difficult to run if you have enough bandwidth and a 
> dedicated server.  I would just ask on the various open source lists and 
> sites to see if anyone would host it for you, maybe even the developers of 
> the distro that you're working on.  You could try irc.freenode.net as well 
> since many open source people hang out there.
>
> If you find such a public tracker, I would also be interested as I'm 
> trying to get a fairly large archive distributed that way also, but not 
> related to Linux.  I realize that this isn't much of an answer, but I 
> would think that http://ibiblio.org/ would be your best bet.
>
> Chris Brannon wrote:
>> I want to distribute my ISO, and I think that BitTorrent is the
>> best way to do it.
>> Can anyone suggest a good public tracker on which I can host my .torrent
>> file?  Preferably, I would not have to fill in an image-based captcha
>> in order to upload.
>>
>
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