Find Linux Torrents Quickly 181
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."
Useful, but... (Score:2)
Does this site represent all of the distros available, or just those most used? (with stats drawn from where?)
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Why can't it automatically remove? (Score:3, Interesting)
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.
Re:Why can't it automatically remove? (Score:3, Informative)
Least you can do. (Score:1)
Re:Why can't it automatically remove? (Score:2)
I've never had to check to see how many people are seeding something, and within 1-3 seconds of kicking off a download, I've usually discovered 2-500 other people who are actively downloading and sharing the result.
Want a searchable BitTorrent? It's spelled Gnutella.
Re:Why can't it automatically remove? (Score:2)
Oh wait...
Not to bash Gnutella, but there is a very good reason it is not used for large d
Re:Why can't it automatically remove? (Score:2)
I just took another look at the improvements that have been made in the protocol, and also tested a new client out (gtk-gnutella, Linux), and have to admit, I am impressed at the VAST improvements made in the past months/years.
Thanks for the response.
Re:Why can't it automatically remove? (Score:2)
I remember trying to download a DVD (no not copyrighted) with 2 sides, it was 1 torrent but there where 2 persons with 1 "side" of the torrent each one, so although no one was seeding the torrent was complete and it was better for them to "seed" the file (may count as something like distributed seeding).
It's not just Linux. (Score:5, Informative)
Legality? (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Legality? (Score:2)
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Re:Legality? (Score:2)
Re:Legality? (Score:1)
Yeah, that's because slashcode hides them
(it seems "plain old text" and "extrans" have been inverted for ages)
Re:Legality? (Score:2)
Re:Legality? (Score:1, Redundant)
Re:Legality? (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Legality? (Score:2)
Seriously, once we have won the MGM v. Grokster [eff.org] case in the US Supreme Court, I am sure that arguments about both communists and terrorists using p2p are going to be used in an attempt to pass laws banning p2p.
Re:Legality? (Score:2, Insightful)
Re:Legality? (Score:2)
Re:Legality? (Score:2)
Socrates was sued for "corrupting the youth of Athens". He thought it was frivoulous (which it was), didn't provide a proper defense (since he was an old curmudgeon by then 70 years old) and LOST the case (and his life mind you).
The l
Re:Legality? (Score:1, Troll)
This becomes a problem only if you have stash of illegal files on your hard drive. The MPPA can argue that BitTorrent + Illegal Files = Guilty As Hell. If you are only downloading Linux Files and everything else on your hard drive is legal, then the MPAA can't prove anything.
Re:Legality? (Score:3, Insightful)
Re:Legality? (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Legality? (Score:2)
However, I'm not my mod points on you. There are other people who can say better things than you or me who deserve mod points.
Re:Legality? (Score:2)
Let me rephrase the part that you miss...
[Any transfer client that the MPAA hates] + [Any stash of illegal files you may have] = Guilty As Hell
The MPAA has made it clear that they hate BitTorrent. The key part for the MPAA is to get the case before a dumb judge and/or a dumber jury to make this formula work. Under normal circumstances, the MPAA is wasting everyones' time. However, when you have Senators demanding that "activist" judges be remov
Nice clean layout but.... (Score:4, Insightful)
torrents come and go (Score:2, Interesting)
this article's http://www.linuxisotorrent.com/ [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
Re:torrents come and go (Score:5, Informative)
http://www.shinyfeet.com/?afd=91 [shinyfeet.com]
ain't I a nice guy?
Re:torrents come and go (Score:2, Funny)
I actually have a total of 63.2GB in my file manager, but I know the majority is in my linux folder (sub'd with distros, kernels, and various patches, misc files).
If it was not for their Download URL feature, I'd probably only have 5
While on the topic of Linux... (Score:1)
Re:While on the topic of Linux... (Score:2, Informative)
*giggles inside*
Re:While on the topic of Linux... (Score:3, Funny)
Re:While on the topic of Linux... (Score:2)
Re:While on the topic of Linux... (Score:2, Informative)
Maybe you giggle because you assume a Linux newbie can't read a manual.....
Re:While on the topic of Linux... (Score:2)
Gentoo just seems... silly [funroll-loops.org] to me, for most applications.
--grendel drago
Re:While on the topic of Linux... (Score:3, Informative)
Re:While on the topic of Linux... (Score:2)
I haven't used Gentoo but I can understand their point of view.
It's the computer doing the compilation, not them, so that doesn't cost them much. Particularly if they have more than one computer.
And if they compile it themselves they have more control, it gives them a warm fuzzy feeling. It's also a good vehicle to learn and experiment. So why not?
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zealotry [reference.com] n : excessive intolerance of opposing views. [microsoft.com]
Re:While on the topic of Linux... (Score:4, Informative)
Re:While on the topic of Linux... (Score:2)
Abiword, trillian, winamp, firefox, avg, all work well on it, but it's using Windows ME.
Re:While on the topic of Linux... (Score:2)
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LiveCD? (was Re:While on the topic of Linux...) (Score:2)
Re:LiveCD? (was Re:While on the topic of Linux...) (Score:2)
No Bloat - FreeBSD (Score:2, Interesting)
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..
Re:While on the topic of Linux... (Score:1)
for serious.
Re:While on the topic of Linux... (Score:2, Informative)
http://www.damnsmalllinux.org/ [damnsmalllinux.org]
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Re:While on the topic of Linux... (Score:2, Informative)
You could try DeLi Linux:
http://www.delilinux.de/ [delilinux.de]
Your machine is very high-end for that distro. Once you've got the basic system running with the IceWM window manager, you can download and install Firefox which should run OK. DeLi Linux is based on Slackware 7.1 and runs briskly even on hardware much slower than yours.
Another option is to go with Debian stable (Woody). Like DeLi Linux, it has the old 2.2 kernel by default. The main browser in there however is Netscape 4.77 Communicator - which can
Re:While on the topic of Linux... (Score:2, Informative)
It comes in two flavors - a stripped-down, basic version that works well for web-browsing and email; and the SOHO version which still runs well on older machines, but comes with a full complement of productivity software.
It appears that only the SOHO version is available on the Linux ISO torrent site. The basic version is available at the VectorLinux site itself.
It's nice (Score:1)
Is this off-topic? So many flavors? (Score:3, Insightful)
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).
Re:Is this off-topic? So many flavors? (Score:2)
Re:Is this off-topic? So many flavors? (Score:2)
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
Re:Is this off-topic? So many flavors? (Score:3, Informative)
Re:Is this off-topic? So many flavors? (Score:2)
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?
Re:Is this off-topic? So many flavors? (Score:1)
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.
Re:Linux distro recommendations (Score:2)
A (Arch) (Score:3, Insightful)
Find Linus Torvalds Quickly? (Score:2, Funny)
OT - Debian Sarge (Score:2)
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.
Damned Pirates (Score:5, Interesting)
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.
Re:Damned Pirates (Score:2)
Two birds with one stone, no less.
Microsoft Windows... (Score:2, Interesting)
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
Re:Microsoft Windows... (Score:2)
You're not missing anything. If anyone ever claims that MS got where it is through hard work and products people wanted, show them Windows v1 to 3. NOBODY would have bought that crap if it hadn't been pre-installed.
TWW
Re:Microsoft Windows... (Score:2)
Back when it was new, we were installing OS/2 instead..
Its just in my collection for the sake of history, sitting aside other classics such as 'dejaview' , 'concurrent dos', 'desqview', 'symphony'.....
Re:Microsoft Windows... (Score:2)
Lucky. I'm still in counseling.
Actually, it was fun, in a sick sad way. It was 1987, I was airman in the US Air Force, using a Zenith Z248 (80286 processor and a WHOLE MEG OF RAM! W00T!). We didn't even realize it had "Windows" until we started pokin' around in DOS.
Great fun... start up 10 different copies of "clock". Windows would actually begin to lose time trying to keep the second hand on 10 different "analog clock" displays updated. Within
Re:Damned Pirates (Score:2)
Did the school give you any kind of notice that they were bringing in corporate representatives to brainwash your children?
Did you have any choice in the matter?
One day my kids will be in school, and I'd like to have a checklist to go over with the teachers from time to time...
-- John.
Kudos to the Slashdot editors... (Score:5, Informative)
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.
Re:Kudos to the Slashdot editors... (Score:2, Interesting)
i can't find even a small banner on their home page...
they are just offering an useful service to the community... sure those thing aren't hard to find but i would have to browse the distro home page following 3-4 links and wasting, let's say, a minute...
now i can download a distro torrent with just a click!
Re:Kudos to the Slashdot editors... (Score:2)
Either that or it was submitted by a person who just found it... and that seems more likely. The editorial system here usuall
Re:Kudos to the Slashdot editors... (Score:2)
No, that seems unlikely. The submitter uses linuxisotorrent.org as contact instead of the email address. More likely, the user built the site, registered it, and used slashdot to advertise it to the public (and there are adverts on the page). I had a site the slashdot crowd would be interested but I didn't submit it to slashdot because I knew it would be
Re:Kudos to the Slashdot editors... (Score:2)
Re:Kudos to the Slashdot editors... (Score:2)
Of course, thanks to good old PithHelmet I wouldn't have seen any banners anyhow...
Re:Kudos to the Slashdot editors... (Score:2)
Two words: Firefox + Adblock.
Re:Kudos to the Slashdot editors... (Score:2)
and google already does it faster, and better... (Score:2)
gentoo [google.com]
debian [google.com]
mandrake [google.com]
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 s
groovy (Score:1)
The Linux Mirror Project (Score:3, Informative)
Too many distro?!? (Score:1, Insightful)
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?!?
Re:Too many distro?!? (Score:4, Insightful)
This always gets modded insightful, but the truth is that the posts lacks a careful insight. The reason why Linux won't unify is because their is many more different needs for OSes beyond "server" and "desktop." Embedded systems need an OS, firewalls need an OS, low end desktops need an OS, high end desktops and workstations need an OS, web servers need an OS, servers needed for specific venders software needs an OS, Joe Users needs an OS if it helps his ego. For each of these uses for an OS (and more) there is a least one Linux based OS serving the need.
The closest thing the Windows world has for many of these things is older versions of the OSes. Linux is just a kernel used in many more ways than I can imagine. Each distro is its own OS (based on Linux) and so the problem is that there might be too many OSes since Linux came around. And that might be true if you fear choice....
Re:Too many distro?!? (Score:2)
Your parent poster's point. Why can't we get a single distro for Joe User, a single distro for techie workstation (though yes, we'll get three: Gnome, KDE, Other) rather than having to pick between a handful of Gnome-based desktop distros, a handful of KDE-based desktop distros....
Choice is one thing, but with all the people available working towards one thing, you free up a lot of duplicated maintenance/i
Re:Too many distro?!? (Score:2)
- Windows Millenium Edition
- Windows 2000 Professional
- Windows 2000 Server
- Windows 2000 Advanced Server
- Windows 2000 Datacenter Server
- Small Business Server 2000
- Windows XP Home
- Windows XP Starter
- Windows XP N
- Windows XP Pro
- Windows XP Pro x86-64
- Windows XP Media Center
- Windows XP Tablet PC
- Windows XP Embedded
- Windows NT 4.0 Embedded
- Windows CE 3.0
- Windows CE
- Windows CE 5.0
- Windows Mobile
- Wind
Oh, the irony (Score:5, Funny)
From site: http://www.linuxisotorrent.com/images/home.gif [linuxisotorrent.com]
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.
Re:Oh, the irony (Score:2)
So you're determining the web site's philosophies from an icon they use?
Take a chill pill dude.
Re:Oh, the irony (Score:2)
Oh, the sweet smell of triumph!
Yeah, I sent the webmaster a not-so-friendly email. Apparently he got it.
Something nobody seems to have pointed out yet... (Score:3, Insightful)
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.."
But...!!!! (Score:2)
Leeching from The Linux Mirror Project (Score:5, Interesting)
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.
Obvious question... (Score:3, Interesting)
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?
Re:Obvious question... (Score:3, Interesting)
The Linux Mirrror Project deserves a mention too (Score:3, Informative)
The Linux Mirror Project (Score:2)
Re:whore (Score:1)
Re:You insensitive clod! (Score:2)
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