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Kiwix - they have downloads of various educational resources including subsets of Wikipedia which can be taken on a USB-stick to far off remote places that don't have reliable internet access.
You can find the available downloads at library.kiwix.org
Archive.org has a bunch that you can help with.
Debian Trixie just released, so...
Yup just started seeding the 64-bit PC DVD .iso since I figured I'd need it sooner or later, the .torrent links are listed there in the Debian download page https://www.debian.org/distrib/
And of course plenty of other Linux distros have their own torrent links.
Tor (Tails Iso), other linux isos, internet archive stuff in public domain
Isn't tor risky with police?
Not really, as long as you don't run an exit node
But what if exit node was captured by police and they will get next node and etc
Running a Tor relay, even an exit node, is not illegal in most jurisdictions. However, exit node operators may receive a large number of abuse reports and legal threats, which they must properly answer to avoid further trouble and that's why it's not recommended for the individuals to run an exit node.
For those living under authoritarian regimes where Tor might be illegal, the risks are obviously significantly greater.
For those living under authoritarian regimes
Is the UK in that category?
I'm trying to think of one single world government that isn't brutal authoritarians
Depends who you ask I guess, but at least Tor isn't illegal there, is it?
You're either trolling, or fundamentally don't understand how tor works. Exit nodes carry all the risk as they are the only ones who know what the exit traffic is. Every node before that is encrypted and doesn't know anything other than the next node. Police can capture an exit node all they want, its of no legal concern to the guard and middle if they do. The guard is the only one that knows the originating IP address. There are flaws in tor, don't get me wrong. But that's not one of them.
Sorry I wrote with haste (Updated my original comment), I meant to say Tails which for those who dont know is an anonymous linux live OS that is preconfigured to use Tor. So I was talking about seeding the Tails disto img.
As for Tor and running a node , it depends on the country. I have been running a non exit node for years with no issues in Europe.
Linux distros often have torrents for their ISOs.
I'm building this hosting service and while testing the torrent aspect of it I uploaded the Linux mint torrent and I've been seeing it ever since.
In general, most large FOSS torrents benefit from additional seeders (although I don't think many are in lack thereof). Beyond that, I think I vaguely remember wikipedia and internet archive having a torrent component.
There's no warning anywhere saying so, but torrents have been broken on archive.org for years now. I can't remember the specifics but many torrents if IA is the only seed you'll get stuck at 99.9% and it'll never complete.
Infuriating.
Yeah, it's like that for some torrents, but some also work fine. And the ones that don't work, you can revive by manually downloading the zip file from their servers, I guess.
Don't download the padding files and you're golden
Linux ISOs
Depending on your jurisdiction, popular torrents on archive.org
Anna's Archive
Not exactly legal as OP requested
if Facebook can torrent books and get away with it I should be able to too
True, but that's still not how it works since we have a multi-tiered justice system where corporations are basically able to get away with whatever.
fair enough
OP is asking about seeding though, and wasn't the whole Facebook debacle that they never seeded so they got away with it or something? Because they never "distributed" anything?
Nothing legal about Anna's Archive content.
Your favorite Linux distro.
Wikipedia zim