Thanks to your donations we were able to make a donation in turn to fosstorrents.com - so we got the hook up now and have some torrents. Testing/seeding appreciated! Fire up those homelabs!
Check out the fosstorrents.com donation page if you’re looking to chip in a few bucks!
Does this mean there is a way to donate to Universal Blue .. ? I’ve looked before, and again just now, but not seeing an obvious donation thing on the website.
The donation page is all linked in each end-user image’s documentation. Not everyone has a Github sponsor nor does every piece of software have a way to donate.
Edit:
A goal to have proper funding is in the project roadmap.
Exciting to see torrents for the installer supported for those who want to join but have unreliable internet or otherwise prefer torrenting for the sometimes > 8GB ISOs. The Fedora Atomic update mechanism seems fairly resilient anyway, even back with rpm-ostree. With that and the stable/weekly update option reducing day to day bandwidth concerns, this feels right. Also works well with Fedora’s installer having the built-in verification reducing the need to explain how to validate the security of a torrented ISO.
Yesterday Bazzite’s torrents were at the top of the charts on my qbittorrent grafana dashboard. The seedbox on my home container infra seeds over a hundred Linux/BSD images, archive.org content, dumps of wikipedia, etc.
I’m guessing the web sites will get updated to prominently feature the torrent download? As someone deeply invested in this oddly specific topic, featuring the bittorrent download in the same style/prominence as the direct download (with a magnet link nearby as well) is an easy way to guarantee the torrent is popular and well-seeded.
For an example, see how Ubuntu hides their torrent download vs Xubuntu, where torrent is the preferred or default. The xubuntu torrent is always far more popular.
I’m not a big torrent user. Why do some people prefer torrents?
This is great. Downloading ISOs from the main site can be slow sometimes. It usually takes a few minutes but on my latest install it took an hour. I’m glad to see an alternative.
My main reason to prefer torrents is to save bandwidth/money for these open source projects.
Thanks for the reply!
I did a little research, and also found:
Sounds like a win-win.