At the same time, the download is also much faster - and even faster if the user community is very interested. Developers of Linux distributions in particular can save massive amounts of server capacity in this way and do not have to spend a lot of money on expensive hosting. between the users of the torrent network. The advantage: The download is “peer-to-peer”, i.e. If you find a torrent file somewhere – it will be something like Ubuntu like many other open source software packages via torrent offered - you can use them for the actual download. In order to start the actual download, you need software that can read the torrent file and then start the download. So the torrent file is not the actual download, but a “map” that leads to the download.
she belongs to the Bittorrent network and contains some information about the file to be downloaded such as the IP address of the so-called tracker and checksums of the file segments.
The torrent file is a small file with the *.torrent extension.
