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I would like to introduce myself and give a little background as well as say Thank You to SilverBear for letting me join the Mepis Torrent Team.
My torrent box is a m-itx computer I use for usenet, bittorrent, and as a file server it has 2tb of available storage expandable with two open 3.5" sata drive bays. I am running Debian Etch and for bittorrent I just upgraded from rtorrent to Vuze with rtorrent I was starting to run into a problem with the quantity of available torrents eating up a substantial amount of bandwidth just communicating with the tracker. Vuze has a much better seeding que system which should reduce the amount of communication to the tracker reducing the bandwidth used and the load on the tracker. My internet connection is a DSL line with average speeds of 1.5mb downloads and 512kb uploads and I keep the server running 24/7 for seeding. I have been using Linux for about 1.5 years now as my primary OS at home however I just started using Mepis my previous distro of preference was Kubuntu. I will try to keep the current version of both 32bit and 64bit Simply Mepis torrents seeded at all times to help the community.

Hi Shadowtester,
Welcome to the team, happy to have you here.
Thanks for helping.
Wayne

Shadowtester,

Welcome! It's good to have you aboard.

-Bruce

Yes, welcome aboard!

Gang: I have to make a public apology to Shadowtester. He was trying to join the group for over a week, I think it was. My own incompetence in following up on his registration/application to the Forum would have dissuaded a lesser man, I'm sure. But he hung in there, then nudged me with a patient reminder, for which I'm grateful. I'm already absolutely certain he's going to be a great asset to the team.

I just finished setting up a seeding box at work using a Buffalo Linkstation Pro running rtorrent to help seeding between my home and work I should have a little over 1 mbit upload speed 512kb at home and 768kb at work. I will keep both the 32 bit and 64 bit of the main Simply Mepis torrent seeding at both locations. If you want I could also seed other Mepis torrents as well please let me know of any you would like me to seed space is not a big issue with over 350mb available on the LSPro and at home I have over 1tb free without adding any additional drives to my NAS.

Hi Shadowtester,

SilverBear is pretty agressive about keeping the LinuxTracker list clean. Here is the list of currently active torrents:

antiX M8 Base
antiX M8 Final
SimplyMEPIS CD 7 9 96 rc3 32bit
SimplyMEPIS CD 7 9 96 rc3 64bit
MEPIS KDE4 2 64bit UCE
MEPIS KDE4 2 32bit UCE
SimplyMepis 3 4 3
antiX M8 base1
antiX M7 5
MyKDE4Mepis iso
SimplyMEPIS 7 0 64bit CD version
SimplyMEPIS 7 0 32bit CD version

-Bruce