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Feb 19, 2015 Archive

Heating things up!

b"Well, most of the United States is in a deep freeze at the moment, but here at Linuxtracker, we're getting ready to heat things up!\r\n\r\nWe've had a ton of new torrents uploaded over the last couple of weeks and it doesn't look like its going to slow down. \r\n\r\nIf there's anything missing from the recent releas…
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Dec 28, 2014 Archive

Drawing to an End...

b"We're quickly approaching the end of 2014 (Where did the year go?!?!?) and the beginning of 2015 everyone at Linuxtracker.org wants to wish you a happy new year. We hope that 2015 is a good year for everyone of our guests.\r\n\r\nOver the next few weeks we're going to be working to update our category listings with …
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Sep 3, 2014 Archive

Issues with the Tracker

b'Yesterday, the tracker was down for a number of hours due to an issue with our raid array (one of the drives had gone bad). \r\n\r\nOur host was able to identify the issue and replace the card and drive with out any further issues or loss of data and the tracker was back on line around 6pm EST. \r\n\r\nAs long as yo…
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Apr 9, 2014 Archive

Linuxtracker and Heartbleed

b'By now you\'ve heard about the Heartbleed "bug" that is able to use a vulnerability in an older version of OpenSSL to gain access to any number of supposedly secure communications from your computer to a server.\r\n\r\nWe have upgraded our install of openSSL as well as several other key pieces of software at Linuxtr…
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Mar 5, 2014 Archive

Marching on with the Tux

b"Well, here we are three months in to 2014 and going strong. \r\n\r\nWe wanted to point out (in case you missed the March 2014 issue of LinuxFormat) that we were mentioned on page 75 of the March issue of LinuxFormat in a section on flexget. If you look at the image, there's a lovely screen cap of the site and under …
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Feb 21, 2014 Archive

Recent Slowness...

b'The issues of recent slowness with the site have been resolved. \r\n\r\nPlease note that we routinely monitor connections and block anything over 50 connections at one time coming in to our server (to be accurate, you get null routed) :grrr:\r\n\r\nWe will be keeping an eye on things over the next couple of days how…
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Feb 21, 2014 Archive

Recent Slowness...

b'The issues of recent slowness with the site have been resolved. \r\n\r\nPlease note that we routinely monitor connections and block anything over 50 connections at one time coming in to our server (to be accurate, you get null routed) :grrr:\r\n\r\nWe will be keeping an eye on things over the next couple of days how…
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Dec 16, 2013 Archive

Nearing the year end!

b"Wow! Can you believe that 2013 is almost over? We can't and we wanted to remind everyone of some things here at Linuxtracker.org.\r\n\r\nFirst, please be mindful of what you upload to the site. Warez, Crackz, Music and movies will not be tolerated here and will be removed and the uploader will be banned from the sit…
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Nov 12, 2013 Archive

On to November!

b"As it goes, my beard is coming in nicely for the winter months and for November and we're finally comfortable in saying that we've gotten the issues with the server fixed and squared away.\r\n\r\nOnce again the server is back to responding the way it needs to. \r\n\r\nIf you haven't yet, visit us at https://www.goog…
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