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torrentnerd writes "If you're on the hunt for Linux ISO Torrents you might want to check out the long list of recently released distro torrents over at LinuxISOtorrent.com. They've got frequently updated torrents from A (Arch) to Z (Zen). The site only does one thing, but does it well - helps you get the latest Linux distros downloaded via BitTorrent, quickly."
It would be nice to see how they get thier update informaton. Distrowatch has the same information, but this site appears to be focused strictly on providing links to torrents.
Does this site represent all of the distros available, or just those most used? (with stats drawn from where?)
"Rocky Rococo, at your cervix!"
I see a link to report dead torrents. Why not automatically check for dead links occasionally?
I suppose they can be given some leniency, but if it's down for a whole week, it shouldn't require human intervention to drop from the page.
Transcend Humanity. Please.
Also some of the *BSDs.
Is this legal? Can't the MPAA sue you if you use BitTorrent, even if it is just to download Linux?
live tracker stats would be an obvious plus...
Hey, let's copy and past from OSNews all day.
Time to switch ISPs then! - stop making those ISPs money. They want to block legitimate usage, make them go out of business.
I have over 20GB of linux distros/kernels in my online file storage. I have hit many of the torrents over the past couple months stocking up. I can't stand trying to find a mirror that is fast enough, so storing them, as I do, works out perfectly.
this article's http://www.linuxisotorrent.com/ site will be sweet to find some of the stuff I've been having trouble locating (I hope). so far it looks very cool
do you have shinyfeet?
I have an old pII 233mhz with 64 megs of ram. All I want to do with is browse the web and check email, so I'm wondering, what flavour of linux would work best for that? I don't want anything bloated either :)
It's nice to have a kernel.org (sort of) equivalent for distributions.
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I'm a Windows user and went briefly to Fedora Core 3. I had problems when I upgraded my computer and couldn't get FC3 running again, even after a full recompile.
I was asking questions on www.linuxquestions.org, but nobody could help me even though I posted all of the error messages and problems, so they recommend I try another version of Linux.
This site illustrates one of the problems with Linux that most regular users would have. How do you pick one of these? How do you compare them all and say "That one has the features I need". It looks like there is at least 50+ different distros. Do you have to click on each little site info graphic just to learn about them? It is just too confusing to know which one to use, and I'm a computer programmer with a decent amount of computer skills. I'd hate to see what poor Aunt Mable or Grandma would think if they saw that list.
And not that anyone is interested, but I finally bit the bullet and bought an OEM version of XP SP2 to save money on the Microsoft tax (I was Win 98 before switching to FC3).
Arch Linux is a breath of fresh air.
I've already cancelled.
But the 404 is the least you can do. Same thing with the links to the webpage.
Transcend Humanity. Please.
Note to self: slow down a tad when reading slashdot headlines.
Agreed. At the very least, this needs a small description of each distro, like you find at Linux.org. Primary language, purpose (firewall, general, app development, etc). This appears to be a good BT place to get what you already know about.
Fedora is just red hat's public beta and gives you all the disadvantages of redhat with none of its advantages: namely, you have a heavily modified system, but none of the big support structure. If you try suse or mandrake or basically anything non-redhat I think you'll have a much better experience.
I am trolling
Anyone know if this is being released to stable today?
The timeline set May 3 gives today as a release and I don't know of any changes, but there's nothing up there about the new release.
Only pirates trading in 'copyright infringing materials' use bittorrent.
Thats what my friends at the *aa's told my child in school last week anyway... And something about a 'reward program' of some sort.
---- Booth was a patriot ----
Sometime you don't have a choice. Penn State (and plenty of other universities) have firewalls up that block bittorrent. Switching ISPs however would require moving out of the dorms and finding an apartment. Kind of a drastic move to be able to use BT, huh?
for providing free advertising.
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I thought the story sounded like an advertisement:
whois linuxisotorrent.com
Updated Date: 27-may-2005
Creation Date: 27-may-2005
Expiration Date: 27-may-2006
As if these things aren't hard enough to find anyway. To the story submitter: I know your new site applies and is a good idea, but don't hijack Slashdot's power for your own gain.
Why not try a LiveCD? Knoppix, Ubuntu, etc.
Part of the attractiveness of Linux is that you are not locked in to one particular vendor's way of doing things. This is also part of the problem for new users as the number of choices, while advantageous for the novice or expert, is absolutely daunting for the beginner. linuxquestions.org has a forums section dedicated to distribution reviews created by users. These can give you insight into what distributions might suit your preferences.
this is good, all good...
Politics is Treachery, Religion is Brainwashing
http://www.tlm-project.org/ They have the latest Linux torrents, but also some more old ones. It also has a message board.
Isn't allowed in my house, so he already knows there are alternatives.
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Well, actually i take that back, i do have an original unopened box of 'microsoft windows environment 1.0' on the shelf with my other retro software collection.. But that is different
---- Booth was a patriot ----
I really couldn't. I went from a Pentium 3 500 MHz with 128 Mb of RAM to a 3.6 GHz Pentium 4 with Hyperthreading and some very new hardware, including a PCI Express graphics card. No matter what I did, all desktops locked up during loading at a point where I could do nothing.
:( At least we use FireFox and Open Office on XP. I really did want to use Linux.
After two days, I finally figured out I could get to the command prompt with the help of the rescue cd, and followed instructions for a full recompile, but it didn't help.
Remember, I was a new user to Linux. And unless I do a good job convincing her that I can make it work, my wife will never let me try Linux on that computer again.
Get yourself a shell account on a server that has a fast and reliable route to your dorm. Have you tried different ports?
Being called a dork on Slashdot must be like being called the retard in special ed.
NICE page!
It will also be happier with the 64mb you have...
Most any current mainstream linux distro will choke on you. Which is sad.
FreeBSD is a lot less resource hungry, and you will be happier with its performance, and manageability.
Oh, wait, i didnt support 'linux', i guess that means ill get modded down. oh well..
---- Booth was a patriot ----
It's quite a pity to see all these distros... the opensource communit is wasting a lot of efforts on reinventing one hundred times the same things...
I know that this will never happen but why not focus on a "server distro", on a "desktop distro" and on a "minimalistic distro" rather than developing hundreds of clones of themselves?!?
The editorial system here...
Editorial system? On Slashdot?
You must be new here.
Your wife has clearly been bought off by microsoft!
Out of the box support for that bleeding edge hardware may have been poor. I have gotten fedora to unrecoverable states before.
Why not just dual boot with XP? That way you can screw around with other OS's without inteerupting your wife's computing needs.
Did anyone else notice that the homepage uses Windows XP's Internet Explorer home button icon between the distro's name and its respective website?
g if
From site: http://www.linuxisotorrent.com/images/home.gif
IE screenshot: http://searchy.protecus.de/en/address_bar_search.
Apparently LinuxISOtorrent.com doesn't share the same philosophies which propels the software it indirectly hosts.
I wonder how much money they've made off this slashdotting from advertising? Pffft.
http://torrent.gnome.org/
http://torrent.linux.duke.edu/
details http://torrent.linux.duke.edu:6969/
whew.
Good to know they didn't helicopter/tranq/gps-tag Linus.
Way to elude them BigGuy.
You can actually get Linux ISOs as torrents? This is like finding out that women actually powder themselves in the 'powder room'.
Knowing this place, that bit about communism is probably true. Or maybe socialist. ;)
Next time the media does a story on the "illegal file-trading site BitTorrent", you can point to this and say, "See? It really has little to do with that at all.."
Torrents are evil. What about the copyright holders? Clearly Linux developers, musicians, filmmakers and little penguins are being starved to death by wanton, shameless downloading of distro ISOs off of bittorrents. Western civilization will fall, the Communist scourge will return, and our women will find themselves being prostituted out. Our children won't have quality entertainment like Britney Spears and Metallica.
The world's burning. Moped Jesus spotted on I50. Details at 11.
Which ISP is that?
I was asking questions on www.linuxquestions.org, but nobody could help me even though I posted all of the error messages and problems, so they recommend I try another version of Linux.
:-)
Often a blame-shifting problem. If nobody present is sure what to do, recommending "another distro" is a popular way to avoid staining Linux's reputation. (And this is coming from someone who doesn't own any Windows computers.) There are good reasons to choose particular distros, but if you are looking for a general-purpose distribution and someone is recommending switching distros to solve a particular problem, and you're already using one of the mainstream distros (Fedora, Debian, SuSE, Mandriva....), then they are not giving you good advice. It should be quite possible to get things working on your distro.
I'd recommend trying an appropriate Linux Usenet newsgroup for help, and if you know what software package is breaking, the mailing list or IRC channel for that software package. I've been unimpressed with a number of general Linux web forums -- there are so many web forums that the degree of expertise on them is spread very thin, and it seems to be a large number of new folks that are just getting things up and running.
You shouldn't need to recompile anything to get Fedora working again. The days of recompiles solving things are pretty much in the past -- this was mainly an issue back before everyone started using modular kernels, and folks had to recompile their kernels when they added hardware.
This site illustrates one of the problems with Linux that most regular users would have. How do you pick one of these? How do you compare them all and say "That one has the features I need". It looks like there is at least 50+ different distros. Do you have to click on each little site info graphic just to learn about them? It is just too confusing to know which one to use, and I'm a computer programmer with a decent amount of computer skills. I'd hate to see what poor Aunt Mable or Grandma would think if they saw that list.
The typical "default choice" that I'd probably recommend would be Fedora. It has wide deployment and thus is the distro most likely to be supported by any binary-only software, and most likely to be well-tested with a given application. It isn't as radically Free as Debian, but it's in the close second-tier -- RH does a number of things that aren't in their own interest but promotes the use of Free software, like including Mozilla instead of Netscape before it was really ready, or including ogg support instead of mp3 support. Fedora is probably not the best choice if you already know that prefer KDE to Gnome, since Red Hat puts more work into Gnome than KDE.
Debian is probably best for folks who want to work on a maximally community-oriented system, where as many people as possible are volunteer contributors.
For off-CD, no-hard-drive-installation running, Knoppix seems to have pretty much taken over -- I don't look at SuperRescue any more when I want to do rescue work.
Everyone has their own preferences, of course, and biases based on what they use. I can only give what reflects my own.
* I don't like SuSE, because they seem to have moved a little too far away from the Free ideology, from an interview with their CEO that I read. I remember Ransom Love doing this, and what ensued. Also, I'm not thrilled with their actions (like delaying distribution of ISOs for new distro releases until after they've sold commercial copies for a while).
* I don't know what the story is with Mandrake (well, Mandriva these days). They kept chugging along for a long time. I've never used them, but they used to be my recommendation for people that wanted "Red Hat, but with a KDE focus".
* Periodically, I think about looking at Gentoo (I don't have much reason to go to the effort of switching distros, but it'd be interesting to try installing it sometime I'm just setting up a throwaway Linux box to wor
Any program relying on (nontrivial) preemptive multithreading will be buggy.
Anyone care to point me toward a good amd-64 linux distro that I can snag via BT? I was hoping I could use Mandrake's 64-bit disto, but it seems to be vaporware.
What are people running on their amd64s? Please provide good torrent links.
http://www.tlm-project.org/
A concern is that there is no credit to "The Linux Mirror Project" for any of their work in providing the torrents, its only a couple of static files on a webserver and a revenue stream from the google adverts on the side.
How many are there I made and posted my first torrent here http://linuxtracker.org/ how many sites can we list to make use of my idle bandwidth I seed linux torrents and other legal stuff like 10,000 free legal books http://www.gutenberg.org/ http://www.gutenberg.org/cdproject/ http://snowy.arsc.alaska.edu:6969/ use you spare bandwidth to help the World torrents are like guns its how you use it that counts!
What happens to this site when people start hiding complete movies in 5gig "ISO" torrents.
For instance a complete install of SUSE in DVD form is several gig in size. What's to stop someone from hiding a movie renamed as that?
"Bah!" - Dogbert
our site also lists linux torrents (as well as others) and their stats... there are also a number of other sites dealing in f/oss that do torrent listings...
Get your torrents...
http://ikarios.com/bt/ documents http://nat.dyndns.org/, which seeds many torrents. this is not JAET (Just Another Empty Tracker): all downloadable files are present. moreover there are many rare files HTTP access via port 80 and the tracker on a high port (51181) enjoy and if you have some resources please let your client seed after the download
This kind of comment scares me, if the MPAA is able to infiltrate the common conciousness to the extent that you need to consider them before downloading anything then... jeez, this just makes me depressed.
I had problems when I upgraded my computer and couldn't get FC3 running again, even after a full recompile.
It is just too confusing to know which one to use, and I'm a computer programmer with a decent amount of computer skills.
You are a computer programmer, and yet you mix up the terms "full recompile" and "full reinstall"? I call shenanigans.
Nice, but what about the BitTorrent Linux Mirror Project? They've been around for a while now. I think they at least deserve a mention, though they do kind of break the real advantage of BitTorrent, by re-hosting torrents. For low demand projects, this might actually make things worse.
Signatures are a waste of bandwi (buffering...)
Darn, still no dice.
I've been looking for the ISOs for Suse Linux Enterprise Edition 9, SP1. Nobody seems very interested in distributing them.
Can I help it if I like a professional distro? (I guess it's a bit like falling for professional women...)
They do give credit under their logo
I can understand using a P2P program for downloading copyrighted material unavailable elsewhere, but why use one to obtain material slower than just a straight ftp or http download?
For slashdotting and the like.
Way to go, moderators. Great job as always.
I'd hate to see what poor Aunt Mable or Grandma would think if they saw that list.
Actually, Aunt Mable is reasonably well off. Her retirement pension from being a school teacher for 23 years is rather generous, and besides, she sells drugs on the side. As for Grandma, she's dead, rest her soul. You haven't heard?
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In future, when using Fedora, check http://fedoraforum.org/
"Thanks for all the money you paid to us. We've used it to buy off ISO among other things" -Microsoft
Just wanted to thank the guy who posted this little treasure... THANKS! :D
I agree, ran very nicely on a partition on a 64MB/400Mhz machine (Standard, not SOHO version) a while back.
Not Free SF Reader
Slackware
gentoo
debian
mandrake
Just use a simple filetype:torrent "search string including distro name, platform compatabily(where applicable), and version information(if needed)"
Google ranks the most popular site's torrents first, so you should get the fastest downloads with the top most results... If you want information about distros you're better off going to distrowatch, or some other site that specilizes in provding information about distros...
Google isn't going out of buisness, even if the site that had those torrents listed does, so you can bookmark a 'basic' search like the ones I listed above and 'load them' everytime you hear about a new release on your favorite distro etc..
your mileage may vary, but if you're looking for a specific torrent, google is going to be way faster than any 'browse through all the content that doesn't interest you' type site.
This is as the parent realized just a simple ad, for YAN torrent linking site, such sites are a dime a dozen around the net. It seems like there are about 120 popular sites that link torrents regularly, so this is clearly just an ad for YAN one of those sites, and since they probably don't host a tracker, they're probably doing nothing but taking attention away from the sites that do.
https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.html
the linux mirror project
_ In Egypt Networks: Network Solutions with a Twist
The Linux Mirror Project is a similar site that has been around for awhile.