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Just a small way to help people get their FOSS. What are some other projects that have torrents that would be good to seed?

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[–] beeng@discuss.tchncs.de 5 points 1 month ago (19 children)

Does anybody download iso's via torrents? Or how to help the actual sites that serve these? Since I trust the source more than torrents.. Especially for an image..

[–] communism@lemmy.ml 14 points 1 month ago (4 children)

I prefer to download isos via torrents. You can easily check the checksum and signature once it's downloaded. And you're getting the torrent/magnet link/etc from the source so it's not some random torrent from piratebay or something lmao

[–] beeng@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 1 month ago (3 children)

Why not direct download from website?

[–] stom@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 1 month ago

Avoid detracting from the hosts bandwidth quota.

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