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Introduction to Osprey

Osprey is a peer-to-peer enabled content distribution system. A metadata management system for software and document collections enables local and distributed searching of materials. Items are available for download directly via URL or indirectly via the BitTorrent peer-to-peer protocol.

For more information about how to use Osprey, please see the Osprey project site.

The Osprey concept and user guide may answer some of your questions.


Bittorrent Client and Torrent File Information

BitTorrent is a peer-to-peer protocol for downloading content on the Internet. There are a wide variety of clients available for most operating systems. For general information about BitTorrent, try the Wikipedia BitTorrent page.

To download content from this site via BitTorrent, just find and install a BitTorrent client, then click on the .torrent file link for the content you want. The Wikipedia BitTorrent page has a good explanation of how this works. As with most other computer-related topics, there exist FAQ pages for BitTorrent:


How to post content to this site

Posting content, both creating documents and uploading torrents, requires the intervention of a site admin. Try sending email to the admin of this site at torrent@ibiblio.org


Questions?

Please email the site admin at torrent@ibiblio.org