best torrent site for linux distro?

[techead]

I see there is a local sticky above, but Im looking for the best international one.

Surely there must be an int site specially for this?

thanks for the help

 

[Logicklz]

Why don't you just download from HTTP or FTP?

 

[karnuffel]

got to ftp.is.co.za

Thats where I download my distros from when I am at work

 

[adrianx]

Just as with Windows drivers, I prefer to go directly to the "manufacturer's" website. Fedora, Centos, Ubuntu, Mint, Arch and probably every other major distro will give you a BitTorrent option.

 

[Kasyx]

Just as with Windows drivers, I prefer to go directly to the "manufacturer's" website. Fedora, Centos, Ubuntu, Mint, Arch and probably every other major distro will give you a BitTorrent option.

But... why?

Linux is not Windows...

There is absolutely no reason to download directly off the "manufacturer's" website. Every mirrored download site will have MD5 Checksums, so if you are truly worried about the integrity of a mirrored download, just do an MD5 check against the MD5 checksum file on the "manufacturer's" website.

Personally, I use http://mirror.ac.za

There is not one single reason I could think of to waste additional time (and international bandwidth) on downloading internationally when we have many perfectly good local mirrors.

 

[adrianx]

But... why?

Linux is not Windows...

There is absolutely no reason to download directly off the "manufacturer's" website. Every mirrored download site will have MD5 Checksums, so if you are truly worried about the integrity of a mirrored download, just do an MD5 check against the MD5 checksum file on the "manufacturer's" website.

Personally, I use http://mirror.ac.za

There is not one single reason I could think of to waste additional time (and international bandwidth) on downloading internationally when we have many perfectly good local mirrors.

I agree with you about mirror.ac.za, it is just that the OP was looking for an international "one-stop shop" for torrents (I think). If something like that existed, I would want to go to the distro's site to get md5/sha checksums anyway.

 

[milomak]

like kasyx states it is very difficult to look past mirror.ac.za unless you are looking for an obscure distro.

 

[Fuma]

got to ftp.is.co.za

Thats where I download my distros from when I am at work

I used that yesterday to download Ubuntu 10.10 AMD 64bit. Just need a good pc to install it.

 

[Centaur]

You can use http://linuxtracker.org/ for Linux torrents.

Or you can go to the distribution's website and get the torrent from there.

 

[milomak]

Unless you are looking for the distro on release date, the mirrors site is more than enough