NixOS iso file via Torrent

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Hello, where can I get the torrent file for the official iso file?
Most linux distros provide their iso file via torrents, I don’t see in such option Download | Nix & NixOS
My download speed is very low, would be nice to have this as torrent so that I can pause and download later. I could try via something like aria2 but that’s a different topic

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Releases · AnimMouse/NixOS-ISO-Torrents · GitHub (unofficial project but claims to download official ISOs) offers such a capability. Check hashes after downloading (as linked in the “releases”).

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I won’t mark it as solution because it’s unofficial, but thanks for the link :smiley:

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This has been discussed on this forum recently: NixOS image downloads as torrent

As I understand it, there’s nothing preventing downloads directly from the site being paused and restarted. The software you’re using to do the download just has to support it.

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Can confirm these torrents are backed by the official iso url as a webseed source, and the torrent files and hashes are autogenerated via a github action source.

$ aria2c -S nixos-minimal-24.11.717296.5630cf13ccea-x86_64-linux.iso.torrent
...
Creation Date: Sun, 27 Apr 2025 11:12:11 GMT
Created By: torrenttools/0.6.2
...
URL List:
 https://releases.nixos.org/nixos/24.11/nixos-24.11.717296.5630cf13ccea/nixos-minimal-24.11.717296.5630cf13ccea-x86_64-linux.iso
Name: nixos-minimal-24.11.717296.5630cf13ccea-x86_64-linux.iso
...

I’ve downloaded this torrent. And when there are no peers are available, it is downloading from a web peer/seed (the linked official url)

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