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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: 2) by JNCF on Thursday November 13 2014, @08:22PM

    by JNCF (4317) on Thursday November 13 2014, @08:22PM (#115642) Journal

    Another thing you might consider donating your processing power towards is a distributed computing project like SETI@home, [wikipedia.org] or running a Tor relay. [torproject.org] Just a thought, torrents are great too.

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday November 13 2014, @10:12PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Thursday November 13 2014, @10:12PM (#115681)

    SETI and some of the distributed computing projects are neat. Tor? I'd rather not help people download child porn, thanks.

  • (Score: 3, Informative) by frojack on Friday November 14 2014, @12:44AM

    by frojack (1554) Subscriber Badge on Friday November 14 2014, @12:44AM (#115721) Journal

    How does that go over with your average ISP?

    Even Tor doesn't recommend [torproject.org] Joe Sixpack run an Exit Node, but its less clear if there is a risk running a relay.

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