Donate Your Bandwidth To Support Ubuntu Downloads

#1 PCWorld

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Posted 20 October 2010 - 04:31 AM

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#2 IndianArt

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Posted 20 October 2010 - 04:57 AM

Wow, Phil not only do you like the Ubuntu OS, you love and follow its philosophy too.

Thanks for this tip, I will donate my spare bandwidth to Ubuntu as soon as I can.

#3 regulas

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Posted 20 October 2010 - 05:35 AM

I agree, I used Ubuntu as my main OS for two years 8.04 - 9.1 and always used the built bit torrent clint in Ubuntu when I downloaded making sure to continue to seed until the ratio was 1:1.

#4 GraysonPeddie

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Posted 20 October 2010 - 06:17 AM

One word: TorrentFlux! I have all 12 of the ISOs from 10.04 to 10.10 with Alternate, Desktop, and Server with i386 and AMD64.

I used it in Ubuntu Server 10.04.1.

#5 brentpcw

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Posted 20 October 2010 - 09:49 AM

Thanks for the great tip, Phil! People like you are the reason why the open source community is so powerful. Go Ubuntu!

#6 WinTard

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Posted 20 October 2010 - 10:01 AM

I donate to the Open-Source, which is much much bigger than just Linux / Ubuntu. Most of the great software I use is Open-Source, right from within Windows! But I also use Ubuntu and others...

My point is Open-Source is not the exclusive domain of Linux/*nix. The very definition of Open-Source means it will run everywhere, since the source can be ported. So I'm a true Open-Source fan! Without borders or prejudices.

PCWorld, on 05 October 2010 - 01:10 PM, said:

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WinTard, on 05 October 2010 - 07:37 PM, said:

nonseq, on 05 October 2010 - 02:47 PM, said:

thewazak, on 05 October 2010 - 02:35 PM, said:

Just one more reason to dismiss Apple as pathetic.
Maybe iJobs should stop selling iPads, as they COULD be used to hit someone over the head and cause personal injury!
And yet the FanBoys will remain loyal - a while longer!

And it appears that your unreasoned bitterness towards Apple runs so deep that it will ultimately turn yourself inside out. There are so many intellectual property and copyright issues associated with bit torrent that it would be malpractice on apple's part offer the app for sale. You may be one of those who thinks that stealing software etc is okay. As one who has lost hundreds of thousands to those who think it's ok to pirate the work of others, I find the practice to be loathsome. that's not being a "fanboy" it just opposing larceny- not to mention the bandwidth required for the practice.

I'd like to point out the bittorrent protocol is an extremely useful & efficient & community oriented way to distribute anything digital. Legally.

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I can readily download the ISO to the latest version of CentOS 5.5 from various mirrors, yet older versions are mainly available from torrents. I just happen to need to load some RPMs specific to CentOS 5.4, so I simply bit-torrented it? And since I got it for 'free' it is simply decent to share at least until I put back as much as I took?

http://isoredirect.c.../5/isos/x86_64/
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Anyway, there is no other way to get older versions...

Just because there are drunks driving, doesn't make every car driver a criminal? Why should it be any different for Bit-Torrents? I simply use the best tools at my disposal to accomplish the task at hand.

Please nonseq, this is in no way a personal rebuff, or starting an argument with your views. I'm merely pointing out how and what I use bit-torrent for. The others? Who knows? But that is none of my business.

Peace!

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Live a good, honorable life. Then when you get older and think back, you'll be able to enjoy it a second time.
~ Dalai Lama

You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty.
~ Mahatma Gandhi, 1869-1948

Disclaimer: This is just my humble opinion -- In a free world, is everyone is entitled to their own opinions?

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#7 DaanDeWeerdt

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Posted 20 October 2010 - 02:15 PM

I use a seedbox with transmission-daemon on it to seed a few releases.
Most packages have around 50.0 shareratio

#8 EdBriggs

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Posted 21 October 2010 - 12:32 PM

50 share ratio? Is that all? I've given back well over 1200 copies of ubuntu in the last 3 years.

#9 VrijileshRai

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Posted 21 October 2010 - 09:01 PM

I used a torrent link to download 10.10, however the iso file seemed to have some errors in it. This might happen because the file is broken into pieces and then uploaded/downloaded and patched. Normally the issue should be error-free, but in rare cases, can cause trouble.

I would also recommend people owning webservers or huge web hosting spaces to put up the iso on their servers and provide a download link on their sites. This too helps in reducing the server overload on canonical.

#10 GavinHarrison

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Posted 21 October 2010 - 11:44 PM

To call Ubuntu open source is a mistake.

It is based on GNU/Linux, a free operating system. Unfortunately some versions of Ubuntu come with non-free, open source software and even some proprietary drivers.