b"It happened. The seedbox suffered a bad harddrive and is unable to repair the disk itself. The hosting company is in the process of replacing it, however, due to the nature of the box, we had/have it setup in a RAID 0 config so there was no redundancy (we went for space).\r\n\r\nWe'll be rebuilding the box and recre…

b'By now if you visit the site regularly you may have noticed some changes in the advertising on the site. We are in the process of evaluating a new advertising partnership that could potentially allow us to remove the need for donations in order to keep the hamsters who power our servers fed.\r\n\r\nIf you would like…

b"WOW! Can you believe that 2016 is two weeks away? It seems like just yesterday we were celebrating 2015 and the changes it brings.\r\n\r\nThings have been decent at Linuxtracker over the course of the year, we've moved to a new host, the server is running more stable and faster than ever before and we're seeing reco…

b"On the heels of last weeks server move, we're excited to announce that we're partnering with Distrowatch in order to become a juggernaut of Linux information. You'll notice on EVERY torrent page there is now a link to the Distro page at Distrowatch for that distribution (go ahead, you can look!). In addition, links …

b"If you're seeing this news block, that means you've made it to the new server. We're damn glad you're here with us too. \r\n\r\nWe've created a special forum post under the linuxtracker news area in the forums to post issues or bugs that you might discover.\r\n\r\nThe new server is more robust, has more space and is…

b'We are in the process of migrating Linuxtracker.org to a new server running on a different backend (moving from an apache/php/mysql setup to nginx) on a new and better server with more ram, drive redundancy and dedicated backups).\r\n\r\nCurrently this is scheduled to take place over two days, July 30th and 31st (ne…

b"Here we are with the summer in the Northern Hemisphere moving on. We've past the first day of July and things are getting hot!\r\n\r\nTraffic is starting to pick up now that everyone is in their summer routines, if you want to know the best way to help us out, KEEP SEEDING YOUR TORRENTS!\r\n\r\nAlso, in light of new…

b"As the heat bears down on us here in the Southern US, things are heating up on the LinuxTracker and the distributions are hitting at an unbelieveable rate!\r\n\r\nThats why we need your help seeding them once you've grabbed them. Help keep the torrent alive for as long as you can and we'll all benefit.\r\n\r\nAlso, …

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b"Well, at least here in the South East United States it has... not so sure about those in the North East... \r\n\r\nBut here we are, March is in to the madness, Baseball is about to be back and we're still rolling full steam with the linux torrents. Please let us know if there's something specific you'd like to see o…