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How to donate bandwidth to support Ubuntu Linux

Written By
Web Webster
Web Webster
Oct 23, 2010

“Ubuntu 10.10 came out earlier this month, and early reviews of
the operating system have been very favourable. Right now many
thousands of people around the world are downloading it.

“In the Ubuntu tradition, you can do your part to make this
process go well for all. With just a few mouse clicks, you can
donate some of your upstream bandwidth to smooth the process for
others to download the open source OS.

“To do so, you’ll be using a peer-to-peer file transfer process
called BitTorrent. Invented by Bram Cohen, BitTorrent gained fame
for its usage in downloading pirated movies”


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Web Webster

Web Webster

Web Webster has more than 20 years of writing and editorial experience in the tech sector. He’s written and edited news, demand generation, user-focused, and thought leadership content for business software solutions, consumer tech, and Linux Today, he edits and writes for a portfolio of tech industry news and analysis websites including webopedia.com, and DatabaseJournal.com.

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