tracker for distributing a talking ISO via BitTorrent?

Tyler Littlefield tyler at tysdomain.com
Mon Dec 8 09:39:13 EST 2008


I had planned on asking that myself. I'm running chris's iso off my server, 
so might be able to handle your archive as well if you wish, depending.

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Tyler Littlefield
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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Jayson Smith" <jaybird at bluegrasspals.com>
To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
Sent: Monday, December 08, 2008 7:30 AM
Subject: Re: tracker for distributing a talking ISO via BitTorrent?


> 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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