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The Pirate Bay's Oldest Torrent Is Revolution OS

Posted by samzenpus on from the back-in-the-day dept.

jrepin writes "After nearly 9 years of seeding The Pirate Bay's oldest working torrent is still very much alive. Interestingly, the torrent is not a Hollywood classic nor is it an evergreen music album. The honor goes to a pirated copy of Revolution OS, a documentary covering the history of Linux, GNU and the free software movement."

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  1. Oldest torrent on TPB isn't porn? by gubon13 · · Score: 5, Insightful

    You just blew my mind...

    1. Re:Oldest torrent on TPB isn't porn? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Insightful

      Microsoft had nothing to do with it.

      Apart from spending decades trying to kill it.

    2. Re:Oldest torrent on TPB isn't porn? by kenh · · Score: 4, Insightful

      I was under the impression that Linus was inspired to "scratch his own itch" by creating Linux not because of "relaxed social safety" but because he had just gotten a new i386 computer and he wanted an OS that would take full advantage of all the features in the chip, and his then-current OS (MINIX) wouldn't do that, so he set about to implement a 80386 version of MINIX.

      Wikipedia supports this idea, and it is curious to note that he made his famous announcement on comp.os.minix, not, comp.os.look.at.what.i.can.do.because.of.our.relaxed.social.safety newsgroup...

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      Ken
  2. No the real irony is... by RyuuzakiTetsuya · · Score: 3, Insightful

    it's in a patent encumbered, non-open format! Even worse, it's inside of an AVI container. :)

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    Non impediti ratione cogitationus.