▲ 334 ▼ What else should I help seed? (lemmy.world) submitted 2 years ago by InternetCitizen2@lemmy.world to c/linux@lemmy.ml 64 comments fedilink hide all child comments Just a small way to help people get their FOSS. What are some other projects that have torrents that would be good to seed?
[–] cantevencode@lemmy.world 25 points 2 years ago (1 child) You grab the .torrent file from the source website (Mint, in this case) and it's safe permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] beeng@discuss.tchncs.de 1 point 2 years ago (3 children) Ahh makes sense. I still direct download but I guess if I had Torrent client locally it might be nice. But 3-4GiB on direct download doesn't take long.. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 6 child comments replies: [–] FierySpectre@lemmy.world 18 points 2 years ago (1 child) It's more of a way to reduce costs for the CDN, using torrents everyone contributes and they only have to send a small magnet file. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] beeng@discuss.tchncs.de 1 point 2 years ago I might seed a few too then. permalink fedilink source parent [–] jrgd@lemm.ee 9 points 2 years ago (1 child) For many with unstable ISP connections, http downloads can get corrupted. Torrents are superior in this regard as the file gets split into blocks that each get checksummed for integrity after completion. This helps to ensure that the large iso is actually complete and won't just be garbage on an attempted install. Even if you checksum the iso from http download, you have to pull the entire thing again if it is damaged whereas the torrent would just repull the damaged blocks automatically. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] beeng@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 2 years ago Fair. That is a good usecase permalink fedilink source parent [–] LunarLoony@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 2 years ago It doesn't, but thousands of people all downloading 3-4GB from the same site will put more load on the site. Torrents avoid this issue by downloading little bits from lots of different peers permalink fedilink source parent
[–] beeng@discuss.tchncs.de 1 point 2 years ago (3 children) Ahh makes sense. I still direct download but I guess if I had Torrent client locally it might be nice. But 3-4GiB on direct download doesn't take long.. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 6 child comments replies: [–] FierySpectre@lemmy.world 18 points 2 years ago (1 child) It's more of a way to reduce costs for the CDN, using torrents everyone contributes and they only have to send a small magnet file. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] beeng@discuss.tchncs.de 1 point 2 years ago I might seed a few too then. permalink fedilink source parent [–] jrgd@lemm.ee 9 points 2 years ago (1 child) For many with unstable ISP connections, http downloads can get corrupted. Torrents are superior in this regard as the file gets split into blocks that each get checksummed for integrity after completion. This helps to ensure that the large iso is actually complete and won't just be garbage on an attempted install. Even if you checksum the iso from http download, you have to pull the entire thing again if it is damaged whereas the torrent would just repull the damaged blocks automatically. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] beeng@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 2 years ago Fair. That is a good usecase permalink fedilink source parent [–] LunarLoony@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 2 years ago It doesn't, but thousands of people all downloading 3-4GB from the same site will put more load on the site. Torrents avoid this issue by downloading little bits from lots of different peers permalink fedilink source parent
[–] FierySpectre@lemmy.world 18 points 2 years ago (1 child) It's more of a way to reduce costs for the CDN, using torrents everyone contributes and they only have to send a small magnet file. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] beeng@discuss.tchncs.de 1 point 2 years ago I might seed a few too then. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] beeng@discuss.tchncs.de 1 point 2 years ago I might seed a few too then. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] jrgd@lemm.ee 9 points 2 years ago (1 child) For many with unstable ISP connections, http downloads can get corrupted. Torrents are superior in this regard as the file gets split into blocks that each get checksummed for integrity after completion. This helps to ensure that the large iso is actually complete and won't just be garbage on an attempted install. Even if you checksum the iso from http download, you have to pull the entire thing again if it is damaged whereas the torrent would just repull the damaged blocks automatically. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] beeng@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 2 years ago Fair. That is a good usecase permalink fedilink source parent
[–] beeng@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 2 years ago Fair. That is a good usecase permalink fedilink source parent
[–] LunarLoony@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 2 years ago It doesn't, but thousands of people all downloading 3-4GB from the same site will put more load on the site. Torrents avoid this issue by downloading little bits from lots of different peers permalink fedilink source parent
