BitTorrent for Content Providers

snuvlorgin writes "ibiblio.org has entered the fray, launching an enhanced BitTorrent site. Among the torrent offerings (all legal) are Linux kernels, distros, Project Gutenberg texts, and the ibiblio Speaker Series, which includes videos of talks by Larry Lessig, Robin Miller, and Dan Gillmor. ibiblio developed and open sourced the Osprey and Permaseed software to make BitTorrent seeding reliable, persistent, and suitable for large-scale content providers. Yes, you can find these torrents later."

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Re:Peachy

[tacarat]

Just in case Peachy's discouraged anyone from trying to submit their homebrew distrobution to Ibiblio.

From Ibiblio.org
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Contributing to ibiblio.org
If you are interested in becoming an ibiblio.org contributor:

      1. Read the Collection Criteria to see if your interest will be served by working with us
      2. Check out the services we offer contributors to see if we have what you need.
      3. Hint: very few, if any, proprietary services will be provided, but many open source solutions are, can or will be offered on request.
      4. Drop a note to help@ibiblio.org telling us:

        * What your project will be
        * What services you might wish to use
        * How to contact you by phone (so we can work out any details and passwords)
        * Anything else you think might be helpful
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One of the main things to be considered is keeping things up to date and making some sort of contribution to the public. It (should) be a given that the bigger distros will be properly maintained, as a good homebrew distro should, but a homebrew which is only a minor modification to an existing distro may not make the cut. If you've got a great modification, maybe you should see if it's more practical to distribute the modified packages instead of an entire distro.