As some of you might know. Linux Journal is dead

As some of you might know. Linux Journal is dead.

RIP Linux Journal 1994-2019

I made a torrent containing the full PDF collection (all issues), as well as siterips of their main site and FTP.

I uploaded the torrent to TPB, but it promptly got removed by some ignorant mod who thought I was hiding "malicious files" in the .tar.xz archives. What a fucking idiot. So, I'm sharing it here instead since the torrent is still alive, even though it's gone from the TPB database. If you love Linux, this torrent might be for you.

Stick it to the man. The Orwellian site known as TPB is not what it used to be, when it was run by the founders.

There's a magnet link in the Pastebin text. Just copypaste that into your torrent client:

pastebin.com/4daLKBYy

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Other urls found in this thread:

pastebin.com/raw/4daLKBYy
pastebin.com/NAbG2aGD
linuxjournal.com/
torrentz2.eu/419daab8d2a053b8613ef97c0ec47065e130d5e4
wired.com/2001/12/aspergers/
stackoverflow.com/questions/19365184/why-did-windows-nt-move-away-from-the-microkernel
infoworld.com/article/3195147/is-linux-kernel-design-outdated.html
itsfoss.com/top-linux-magazines/
reddit.com/r/linux/comments/9go8cp/linus_torvalds_daughter_has_signed_the/
twitter.com/NSFWRedditVideo

fuck loonix

No, fuck YOU, my friend.

>the linux journal died because everyone torrented it so hes a torrent with all the linux journals.

people do not generally compress or archive torrent contents. it prevents using one of the basic features of bittorrent which is downloading/uploading specific files within the torrent.

magnet won't work, I use utorrent if that helps

Leaving everything uncompressed also enables cheap morons to do a hit & run, get 1MB of the 10GB and then not seed at all.

It also blows up the data size to several extra GBs. Not everyone has a good Internet connection. I do, but I live in a privileged country.

Hmmm. That's strange. Try this link to the raw text, and copypaste the link again:

pastebin.com/raw/4daLKBYy

If it still doesn't work, I've pasted a new magnet link here. It's still the same torrent, just more (working) trackers.

pastebin.com/NAbG2aGD

You have a point. There was also an article on Betanews saying that Linux users are too cheap and want everything for free, and that this is the real cause of Linux Journal going out of business.

I think it has more to do with the newspaper / magazine media format itself becoming obsolete due to the Internet.

Betanews are well-known for being Microsoft shills you know

Didn't know. I just found the article when googling Linux Journal. Well, if they're Microsoft shills then that explains it. Thanks for sharing that.

I'll toss the torrent up on my seedbox. Hopefully it'll help Linux journal stay archived for at least as long as it's up.

I don't even heard about linux journal.
Why would I need torrent of linux journals from as old as 1994?
just read man/info dude or look up online

Thanks. Let's hope so.

Linux Journal was a Linux magazine. Most of the data in this torrent is actually the PDFs from 2005-2019 and the siterips. Even if you're reading an issue from 1994, there's probably a lot in there that's still relevant. Considering that Linux is based on UNIX, which has a long tradition stretching back many decades. Even though the Linux kernel is in constant development, there are still some things that haven't changed. Most users never get in contact with the kernel itself anyway, but we're stuck in userland, with the various GNU utilities that also have remained more or less the same for decades. Their code has been updated, of course, but in general the tools themselves haven't changed much.

There are also interviews with various important figures in the free software and open source community, such as Linus Torvalds, the creator of the Linux kernel. Those need to be preserved so the people of the future will know the true history of Linux.

freetards had it coming

>Richard Stallman
>caring about this shit
real Richard Stallman only cares about free software

Bro why does tux have moobs

He's been following the standard American diet (SAD) and because of all the hormones in dairy and meat, he grew bitch tits. Please pray for him.

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Post it on /t/.

Did. There doesn't seem to be much interest.
>thinks RMS doesn't care about the Linux kernel even though it's technically free software and released under the GNU General Public License.

>linuxjournal.com/

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I'd just like to interject for a moment. What you’re referring to as Linux, is in fact, GNU/Linux, or as I’ve recently taken to calling it, GNU plus Linux. Linux is not an operating system unto itself, but rather another free component of a fully functioning GNU system made useful by the GNU corelibs, shell utilities and vital system components comprising a full OS as defined by POSIX.
Many computer users run a modified version of the GNU system every day, without realizing it. Through a peculiar turn of events, the version of GNU which is widely used today is often called “Linux”, and many of its users are not aware that it is basically the GNU system, developed by the GNU Project. There really is a Linux, and these people are using it, but it is just a part of the system they use.
Linux is the kernel: the program in the system that allocates the machine’s resources to the other programs that you run. The kernel is an essential part of an operating system, but useless by itself; it can only function in the context of a complete operating system. Linux is normally used in combination with the GNU operating system: the whole system is basically GNU with Linux added, or GNU/Linux. All the so-called “Linux” distributions are really distributions of GNU/Linux.

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You're right Linus Stallman. I'm so sorry for having offended you. Hail GNU! Hail Hurd!

If you don't have good Internet, you might be better off downloading 1MB of a 10GB file, than downloading 5GB of a 5GB file that then decompresses to 10GB. You're literally screwing up some people somewhere with your subpar planning; no wonder they didn't want to host your garbage.
>b-but why does this public tracker have H&Rs
Not an argument cunt. People are gonna download the whole file and delete it as soon as it's done anyway; the torrent will be dead in two weeks. The way you're doing it just means that you (as the soon-to-be sole seeder) will be uploading the 5GB file over and over for every guy that only wants the 1MB.

Based seedbro. Always seed as much as you leech, if not more.

torrentz2.eu/419daab8d2a053b8613ef97c0ec47065e130d5e4

You're wrong on every count. The torrent is not garbage. It's the most complete Linux Journal collection on the entire Internet. I know because I looked.

There are no 5GB files in this torrent. If someone with shitty Internet wants a taste of what's in the torrent, they can download one of the smaller archives. There's one archive that's 157MB, and it just happens to contain every issue between 1994-2005. Even someone with the shittiest Internet in the world can download that file.

You didn't even look at the torrent or what it contains but just came here to complain. It must suck to be you.

Why don't you watch the page on torrentz2 in a year or two and see how "dead" the torrent is.

It's right there on the frontpage, a letter to confirm.

Maybe you need to look into that insecurity of yours that gets triggered every time someone uses a different operating system than you. Not everyone wants to use a garbage spaghetti code nuclear meltdown like Windows.

Autistic literalism + Plebbit space give a very clear idea of the kind of person you are. Of course I didn't even look at the torrent, and if you thought I did, that speaks volumes about your autism and inability to understand context. What a pitiful creature; your mistake is forgiven.

It seems that perhaps it is you who is a genetic and evolutionary mistake. Since the only thing you do in life is be miserable and try to make others feel the same way.

>Plebbit space
kill yourself

>OP uses language the way it's intended, to convey meaning. Gets called a literalist and an autist.

wired.com/2001/12/aspergers/

Probably 90% of the people living in Silicon Valley are autistic. They design technology your retard brain would never be able to comprehend, and yet you depend on it in your everyday life. Maybe the "autists" are the ones who are supposed to laugh at you, instead of the other way around?

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Did they ever sell paper copies?
I used to go to local LUG meetings years ago and there was always linux magazines laying around. Haven't seen one since.

>LUG
*GLUG
>linux magazines
*gnu/linux magazines

Not based. The sooner Linshit dies the better.

Almost all Internet servers run Linux. Linux runs all of the top 500 supercomputers in the world. Your phone probably runs Linux, if you have an Android phone. The sooner ignoramuses like you die the better. You really are too stupid to be alive.

Yeah, they've sold paper copies. I found some scans while making this collection, although I chose not to include them. My PDFs are all 100% digital. I don't know if or when they stopped doing selling paper copies. But official PDFs were only available from 2005 onwards.

-doing

Everybody called it linux back then.
It was a different time, you understand.
It may have even been before the interjection, I don't know.

>Linux vs. Windows NT and OS/2
>You must have a Intel 386 or better to have any 32-bit choices. Then you need memory. Linux needs 2MB RAM to try out, OS/2 needs 4MB, and NT needs 12 MB.
Man, time flies.

Even back then Windows NT required 3-6 times more RAM than the superior systems. I don't really know what the architectural difference is between NT and OS/2, considering they started out from the same codebase from what I understand... I don't know why Windows NT would require 3 times more RAM than OS/2.

Maybe it's because NT is a microkernel?

stackoverflow.com/questions/19365184/why-did-windows-nt-move-away-from-the-microkernel

In what way did Linux Journal ever matter? I've been using Linux since 2002 and I don't think I've ever appreciated any of their articles. LWN and Phoronix have tons of interesting stuff and I'd be very sad to see any of them go, but Linux Journal?

>EMBRACED.COM

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More than likely, it's not because of the kernel at all, but because of all the crap that runs in userspace.

infoworld.com/article/3195147/is-linux-kernel-design-outdated.html

I didn't read Linux Journal either, but I didn't even know it existed. Had I known it existed, I would've probably read it. I didn't keep up with IT news for a number of years, and I'm slowly getting back into it now. I was still using Linux as my main OS during the past 10+ years, but I was not a very active power user for most of that time.

There's probably loads of useful info in the different issues. Linux Journal seems to have been written by real geeks who cared. It was the first Linux magazine from what I understand, so it has some history. There are also interviews with Linus Torvalds, for example, in the various issues.

Like Win32?

worked on my machine

>be me, download the whole thing at 500 Mb/s, only upload 270 MB in the process
>quit the torrent immediately after :D

That's not very nice. And unnecessary considering you seem to have the bandwidth available anyway.

yeah, i always seed at least 1.0 ratio. the least you can do when getting something for free is to seed back exactly the amount of data you downloaded.

I might have a look and if it's interesting I'll seed for as long as i can. Did you tried uploading it to the archive.org?

Thanks. I hope you find it interesting.

I've thought about uploading it to archive.org. Is it a long process? I'll take a look at it now.

Compressing kills torrents since nobody wants to keep both an unusable archive and the extracted files. The archive gets deleted after extraction which means no seeders.

There are pros and cons with everything. I hear what you're saying, but in this case I think the pros outweigh the cons. The smaller overall size of the torrent makes it quicker to download, while still being slow enough for individual files that there's some time for seeding to happen...

Compression is sort of made for the Internet. It makes perfect sense to compress things to save bandwidth.

who cares

Upload it to rutracker.org

Never read it. Although my job had a subscription to it

Actually I would like to interject.
rutracker has full collection from 1994-2018 broken up in 2 parts 1994-2005 and 2005-2018 and the size is 700mb and 2.5 gb

Good idea. I've registered, and I'm going to look into uploading there tomorrow. Right now I'm too tired to understand where the upload page is.

Seems there are an awful lot of people who have never read or heard about it even though they use Linux. That includes me, until it shut down. It's very odd.

Link?

Has anyone confirmed this shit is an actual dump and not just CP or some shit.

torrentz2.eu/419daab8d2a053b8613ef97c0ec47065e130d5e4

Verify it for yourself. I can tell you it's legit, but what good is that going to do?

Based

Can anyone host a torrent of the unarchived version of this? Willing to seed 10:1

>Leaving everything uncompressed also enables cheap morons to do a hit & run, get 1MB of the 10GB and then not seed at all.

That makes no sense. Couldn't the leach just download at fullblast and rate-limit the download to 0bps?

You must be new here

Have they put Hurd on the side of milk cartons yet?

How many Linux magazines remain alive now?

Thank you OP

but the gplv2, not 3 so he's supposed to hate it because of muh freetardism and being unable to tell you what to do with your project.

Sure, he would've loved for the Linux kernel to convert to GPLv3, but even if they wanted to that's not gonna happen. There are probably millions of people who have contributed code during the time it was GPLv2, so good luck asking each person if they're okay with relicensing under GPLv3.

I'm not sure, but probably not that many.

itsfoss.com/top-linux-magazines/

>That makes no sense. Couldn't the leach just download at fullblast and rate-limit the download to 0bps?

It makes sense, because the separate PDF files are only a few megabytes in size, so a leecher could literally just get one PDF file and then quit the torrent. The upside with having archives is that the files are larger, take longer to leech (even on a really good connection), so there's more time for seeding to happen while the download is ongoing. Even if the leecher closes the torrent client immediately afterwards.

I'm not sure what you mean by rate-limiting the download. Maybe you meant rate-limiting the upload? If you limit the upload speed too much (say 1Kb/s) your download speed will suffer as a consequence when using the BitTorrent protocol. You will not get connected to as many peers as you otherwise would've, and you're not going to be prioritized as a peer.

Linux is unwelcome on Jow Forums since Linus got pozzed

If by "pozzed", you mean a progressive...

Well, Linus was born in Finland. All of Scandinavia is a socialist paradise compared with the third world country standards millions of people in the US are living under, with no medicare for all etc. Stop repeating the lie that social democracy is somehow communist and therefore bad. You know nothing about politics.

If social democracy was so bad, why has it succeeded so well for many decades in a row in Sweden, Norway, Denmark and Finland? You don't see their political leaders murder innocent people by the millions, the way it went down in China, Soviet Union etc.

US politics is currently way more corrupt than the social democracy governments of Scandinavia. But of course, corruption is everywhere still because of human nature. The only difference is the degree of corruption.

If by "pozzed" you mean infected with HIV, well that's very unlikely considering he has a wife and family.

I'm scandinavian myself, but thanks for lecturing me about my country which I'm quite fond of. Linus still got pozzed by his daughter

If you're Scandinavian then the values and principles of Open Source and Free Software should be more familiar to you than the proprietary totalitarian oppressive bullshit that is the Windows operating system with its closed source code.

I have a lot of respect for the open source community, it's just worrying that Linus caved to diversity cultists

I misunderstood you before because I've never heard the slang "pozzed" before. I had to look it up on Urban Dictionary. Didn't know this about Linus and his daughter. Do you have a link?

Ooooookay....
reddit.com/r/linux/comments/9go8cp/linus_torvalds_daughter_has_signed_the/

This doesn't look appealing to me. I'm all for equal rights for every human and I'm against discrimination. But why would meritocracy be a bad thing? Aren't you supposed to prove that you have a skill and then be hired based on that? The tech community is all about tech skills so I find it really weird that this is brought up as a "problem".

I think what some people just have trouble accepting is that this community is populated by mostly male nerds / geeks because they are the ones with the technical know-how. It's not because women have been discouraged to join. In general, women just have other priorities in life. If women want to be part of the tech community then there's no one stopping them from gaining the necessary knowledge and skills... But it sounds like they want a shortcut. They want to be recognized on the same level as high level geeks based on nothing but their will to be recognized. They don't want to work to earn the recognition.

thank you user, I will seed for a good while
I remember getting paper magazines about linux when I was 14 or something, unfortunately I never took it to the next level, your torrent migh be a good chance to pick up linux again

Thanks for seeding.

Yes, please pick up Linux again. The Linux community needs to grow, and it's growing very slowly because desktop users just aren't switching. My biggest regret in all my years of computing is not switching earlier. There was a point where I installed Linux and just found it too difficult and switched back to Windows. I really regret that. I wish I would've given it some more time and effort, maybe do a little reading.

It wasn't easy just switching over as a power user. I had to re-learn everything. But now I've been using Linux as my main OS for 10+ years, and I'm more used to it than Windows. When I sit by a Windows computer nowadays it feels like an alien system. I'm glad I no longer have to use it to get things done. Good luck!

man I hope you're being ironic

gonna download this just to seed
thanks lad

Thanks. I appreciate it. Why don't you read an issue while you're at it? I would recommend one of the recent issues. So, it's in 'PDFs/Linux Journal issues 132-301 PDFs.tar.xz'.

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Have a shave and comb your hair you scruffy fat cunt

Thanks, I will. Which shaving cream do you recommend? Which kind of razor should I go for? Is a safety-razor a good idea, or should I go with something like Gillette Fusion ProGlide Power Men's Razor with FlexBall Handle?

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You're objectively wrong and your shit fucking torrent won't get seeded. Stay the fuck on Reddit, faggot.

It really is impressive that you can type such exquisite grammar while holding Bill Gates cock in your hands. Don't let that jizz hit you in the eye.

Safety razor and some foam from literally any soap that foams

I don't use Windows. You shouldn't be archiving the contents of a torrent. This is globally known as bad practice and it removes some of the best features of torrenting.

I saw your Reddit thread. We don't want it here.

>Gillette
Not after that retarded feminazi stunt.

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You haven't even looked at the torrent or what it contains. So you're commenting on something which you know nothing about. Some of the best features of the Internet is being able to download shit without wasting gigabytes of bandwidth for no reason.

You're talking as if I compressed everything in one giant archive, which I didn't. That's what you thought, right?

What fucking Reddit thread?

And also, the siterips contain many thousands of files. It would literally blow up the size of the .torrent file to at least a megabyte just to keep track of all those filenames and checksums. So, really, compression has its place. One archive per site is a lot easier to keep track of than thousands of files.

agreed. that ad campaign was a disgrace

If you registered, just type in linux journal. There's only 2 on there, the one I mentioned

I use Schick

Safety razor, it's by far the most economical choice. I've been using one for over a decade, but happened to see the prices of the gillete shit in a store. Holy fuck, it was like $30 for a few blade refills lmao. I can't believe idiots actually buy that shit. You could use a brand new razor sharp nip steel meme blade every single day and come out far cheaper.