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Ask Soylent: Good Torrents to Keep Seeding?

posted by n1 on Thursday November 13 2014, @07:11PM   Printer-friendly
from the freedom-of-information dept.

An Anonymous Coward writes:

I have a pretty solid connection that has been sitting unused most of the time I'm not home. So I started thinking it would be a good deed to keep seeding torrent files of interesting projects. I already have a Raspberry Pi that's always on (since its my local DNS/DHCP server) so it was just a matter of installing a torrent daemon with a web interface.

My question is, what torrents would the SN community advise me to seed? Of course, I'm talking about content which does not infringe copyright terms. So far I am seeding ISO images for Linux Mint (Cinnamon and Mate), Xubuntu 14.04 and NOOBs (for the RaspberryPi) but I'm thinking there is a lot of other cool stuff that deserves more seeding. Do you know any?

 
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  • (Score: 1) by KilroySmith on Thursday November 13 2014, @07:30PM

    by KilroySmith (2113) on Thursday November 13 2014, @07:30PM (#115636)

    What I would dearly love to do would be to be able to seed "updateable" torrents - to seed the latest version of LibreOffice, for example, without having to update the torrent every update. I want to set it one day ("Seed LibreOffice, latest Stable release, forever"), and not have to touch it for two or three years with it updating the actual torrent file each time LibreOffice released a new one. I don't believe this is a current capability of bitTorrent, but wouldn't it be nice?

    As far as your original question, no.

  • (Score: 2, Informative) by Valkor on Thursday November 13 2014, @07:44PM

    by Valkor (4253) on Thursday November 13 2014, @07:44PM (#115639)

    It isn't a feature of bittorrent itself, but many clients will support grabbing torrents from RSS feeds. At first glance LibreOffice doesn't seem to offer RSS feeds of its downloads, though, so that won't work with that particular bit of software. The one thing that I haven't seen in BT software is "delete this torrent & data after getting a newer one", so that part will still be a manual process.

  • (Score: 2) by Blackmoore on Thursday November 13 2014, @08:24PM

    by Blackmoore (57) on Thursday November 13 2014, @08:24PM (#115646) Journal

    On the same note a torrent for Wikipedia would be a cool resource. (why yes I am working on a bug out system why do you ask?)

  • (Score: 2) by hendrikboom on Friday November 14 2014, @03:15AM

    by hendrikboom (1125) on Friday November 14 2014, @03:15AM (#115772) Homepage Journal

    Sounds like you want a distributed revision control system, such as monotone. Integrating that with bittorrent's mechanisms for finding repositories would be great.

    git wouldn't work as well. monotone has branch names that are the same everywhere. git has local names instead.