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@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
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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