http://distrowatch.com/weekly.php?issue ... 05#torrent
Bittorrent is a great way to transfer large files, particularly open source operating system images, from one place to another. Most bittorrent clients recover from dropped connections automatically, check the integrity of files and can re-download corrupted bits of data without starting a download over from scratch. These characteristics make bittorrent well suited for distributing open source operating systems, particularly to regions where Internet connections are slow or unstable.
Many Linux and BSD projects offer bittorrent as a download option, partly for the reasons listed above and partly because bittorrent's peer-to-peer nature takes some of the strain off the project's servers. However, some projects do not offer bittorrent as a download option. There can be several reasons for excluding bittorrent as an option. Some projects do not have enough time or volunteers, some may be restricted by their web host provider's terms of service. Whatever the reason, the lack of a bittorrent option puts more strain on a distribution's bandwidth and may prevent some people from downloading their preferred open source operating system.
With this in mind, DistroWatch plans to give back to the open source community by hosting and seeding bittorrent files for distributions that do not offer a bittorrent option themselves. This is a feature we are experimenting with and we are open to feedback on how to improve upon the idea.
For now, we are hosting a small number of distribution torrents, listed below. The list of torrents offered will be updated each week and we invite readers to e-mail us with suggestions as to which distributions we should be hosting. When you message us, please place the word "Torrent" in the subject line and please make sure the project you are recommending does not already host its own torrents. We want to primarily help distributions and users who do not already have a torrent option. To help us maintain and grow this free service, please consider making a donation.
torrenting Puppy is now possible
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bark_bark_bark
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In no way can I speak for the community so this is just my comment -- I think this could be useful but we would probably need to elect more than 1 version of Puppy to be available this way. Unlike many distros there is perhaps not just "one most recent" version, I instead might say 2-3. I have my short-list of what those would be in my head but I'll not presume I can dictate what they are 
Granted, the benefit to a torrent might be smaller for most pups vs other mainline Linux distributions, because the Ubuntus and Mints of the world are far larger in size. Buy my view would be, this is one way to promote Puppy and worth taking advantage of.
Granted, the benefit to a torrent might be smaller for most pups vs other mainline Linux distributions, because the Ubuntus and Mints of the world are far larger in size. Buy my view would be, this is one way to promote Puppy and worth taking advantage of.
the files at the archive.org puppy channel have torrents on most of them
useful if you want a full repository download
http://archive.org/details/puppylinux
useful if you want a full repository download
http://archive.org/details/puppylinux