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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 DECbot on Thursday November 13 2014, @10:37PM

    by DECbot (832) on Thursday November 13 2014, @10:37PM (#115685) Journal

    The obvious choices for distros that get mentioned often here as an alternative for systemd: BSD, Slackware, Gentoo, etc.

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  • (Score: 3, Insightful) by frojack on Friday November 14 2014, @12:35AM

    by frojack (1554) Subscriber Badge on Friday November 14 2014, @12:35AM (#115719) Journal

    Seed what you use.

    If you have a connection so some linux distro, seed that if you downloaded it.
    If you didn't think enough about it to download it yourself, then don't seed it either.

    I never go out to get a torrent just to seed it, but I always seed what I download, if its any good, but If I find it crapware, I don't seed it either.
    Found a cool little Slackware based distro called Salix. Tried it out, found it pretty nice, so I seed it.

    I never seed music or movies. I have a static IP and my reverse is set by my upstream so anyone with time to make trouble would have no problem finding me.

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    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday November 14 2014, @06:07PM

      by Anonymous Coward on Friday November 14 2014, @06:07PM (#115981)

      I never seed music or movies. I have a static IP and my reverse is set by my upstream so anyone with time to make trouble would have no problem finding me.

      A fair number of movies and an absolutely huge mass of music is not all rights reserved so you can perfectly legally share it, be it via torrents or otherwise. Some of it is of pretty nice quality as well.