Have you ever had a large file you wanted to distribute to many people at once? For most of us, it's not the sort of problem you face every day but, on the odd occasion you find yourself with a large file or set of files to distribute, Bittorrent can be the answer to your ills.

The issue with distributing content via Bittorrent can be the confusion that lies in how, exactly, to create your own torrent. Many p2p tools have a "shared folder" concept, making it as easy as moving a file into the folder in order to share it with the network. Bittorrent, for many reasons, operates in a different manner. Confusing terms like "tracker", and ".torrent", can make this a real hassle for the uninitiated.

This great how-to on creating a torrent using linux helps clear up some confusion. Even for the windows or Mac user, aside from the obvious difference in tools, the concepts reamin the same.

What are you waiting for? Get torrenting!

[via Newsforge]