Hi!

I have made a remastered Linux ISO. I named it, Eskwela OS. It is about 1.4 GB.

I am a teacher here in the Philippines and I would like to share this ISO to other Filipinos or other linux users who would want to try it.

Basically, the aim of this project is for this ISO to be installed to refurbished computers or older computers for it to be used by children or the youth who are less fortunate.

Where would be the best places I can upload this "huge" file?

So that others can download it and positively install it to their computers. Any suggestions will be highly appreciated. Thank you.

I'd use torrent, makes it easier to download, too.

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I have been digging around for days. Can I use linuxtracker?

Edit:
Could you also direct me as to how a make a torrent and upload it? I apologize if it is so noobish of me.

Didn't you already do that? http://linuxtracker.org/index.php?pa...17f7c089dcee05

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If setting up a tracker is too much work, try one of the cloud drives like Dropbox, Google Drive, Microsoft OneDrive etc. They might be slow, in particular if they detect that they are being abused as a download repository, but perhaps worth a try. Setup is very simple.

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I have done that after posting here. It was easy to setup. The problem I face now is having more seeds for other to have faster download. Thank you for all the help.

Added question:
Are there other sites that offer direct downloads for Linux ISOs?

How can I use Google Drive to host my iso? I think 1.4GB will not be allowed for it to be stored or downloaded. If I am wrong, will you point me to tutorials on how to do it? Thank you very much for the help.

The problem with torrents is that you need to have a certain number of participants whose PCs are online.

Is there a limit? If yes it's considerably more than 1.5GB. Here is an official answer: https://support.google.com/drive/answer/37603

It's probably more or less the same for OneDrive and other similar services.

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Distributing open source software aimed at educating children is something I can fully support, so I added that torrent to my server (and yes, downloading was really slow), which allows outgoing connections for torrents with 40MBit/s. Hope that helps.

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Thank you very much for the help. I am very grateful that you added the torrent to your server. You do not know how much it would hopefully help children here in the Philippines. It might be too much to aspire that computers and companies, including schools, here in the Philippines would not be too dependent on propriety software.

Hopefully the children who will benefit from this endeavor will soon transform how Filipinos think about Opensource software and Linux in general. Thank you for the help, means a lot.

Where could I find a site where I can try to get more seeds? In creating the torrent file the only tracker I wrote there was Linux tracker. How else could I increase its download speed?

The only way to get more seeds that I am aware of is to ask people that download the software to seed it as long as they can. Maybe add a paragraph about that to your website near the download link for the torrent.

i am also downloading the torrent now and will thus seed it soon.

i might be able and willing to host it on my kitchenserver.

Quickest way is to do it the personal-touch-way. Burn your image into DVD disks and distribute to friends FREE with only single favor in return: to copy the ISO into their hard drives, create on it a torrent from Ktorrent, Bitorrent or whatever they have, then leave that running so long as they are in the internet, that's the way of seeding out. Also, you have friends or contacts in the Philippines who are online 24/7 tell them to seed also. There are lots of internet-cafes, probably sprawling all over the streets, if you win ten of these to that campaign you are on the way added to your friends there and here in the LQ.

i am looking at eskwela os in a vm and installing it as i write.
it's all ok, xubuntu based with a few extra apps afaics.
so i'm seeding it, and my previous hosting offer still stands. you'd just get a link to the .iso on my server, and you can do with that link what you want. better than supporting the big, fat, ugly G, no?



sorry but no, it isn't.
with this method you will get a bunch of different torrents, all of them poorly seeded.
it's better to get more seeders for the one torrent op already has.
i am still seeding it and will for a while.

that said, it's probably a good idea to make a few dvds and give them away.