I used to use BitTorrent a ton to download and seed Linux ISOs because their servers would get slammed close to launch, but that hasn’t been an issue for quite a while (they probably use CDNs now) and now I just grab them directly over HTTP.
I wonder how much torrent traffic CDNs have replaced.
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I used to use BitTorrent a ton to download and seed Linux ISOs because their servers would get slammed close to launch, but that hasn’t been an issue for quite a while (they probably use CDNs now) and now I just grab them directly over HTTP.
I wonder how much torrent traffic CDNs have replaced.
Got any good HTTP links worth bookmarking for Linux ISOs? lol
Distrowatch has a torrent RSS that can be added to qbittorrent to automatically fetch new releases https://distrowatch.com/news/torrents.xml