Setting up a dedicated seeder

Digimer lists at alteeve.ca
Mon Aug 20 22:49:44 UTC 2012


That is probably the most you can do with the least amount of work. Find
some F/OSS ISOs with not too many seeds, download them and let the
torrent program keep running. Once your share ratio goes over 1, you're
officially helping. :)

On 08/20/2012 06:46 PM, Christopher Svanefalk wrote:
> To clarify a bit, is there a BETTER way to seed, than to simply let a
> client program (such as Transmission, which I currently use) do the
> seeding for me? I would like to feed as much data as possible.
> 
> Best,
> 
> Christopher Svanefalk
> 
> 
> 
> On Tue, Aug 21, 2012 at 12:45 AM, Christopher Svanefalk
> <christopher.svanefalk at gmail.com
> <mailto:christopher.svanefalk at gmail.com>> wrote:
> 
>     Dear all
> 
>     I have a relatively powerful (i7 3930K, 16GB RAM) desktop currently
>     running simulations for the Folding at Home project 24/7.
> 
>     Since I am sitting on a pretty good landline (100mbit/s upstream), I
>     would very much like to use it to seed torrents for FOSS projects
>     (especially Fedora) as well, in order to contribute to the
>     community. I am relatively new to torrents in general, however, so I
>     was just wondering if someone could give me some pointers on how to
>     do it? 
>      
>     Best,
> 
>     Christopher Svanefalk
> 
> 
> 
> 


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