Month: October 2012

  • 5 things to bookmark in ibiblio

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    1. Project Gutenberg

    A constantly growing collection of over 40,000 ebooks in the public domain. From Dante to Dickens, Gutenberg’s probably got it.

    2. terasaur.org

    The up and coming BitTorrent publishing platform for file sizes in the gigabyte to terabyte range. Linux updates, concert footage, and datasets, all available through a trustworthy and reliable peer-to-peer file sharing network.

    3. The Celestia Motherlode

    A collection of addons for the explorable, virtual universe.

    4. WP Clipart 

    Over 20,000 copyright-free images available for download.

    5. Mutopia

    Sort of a Project Gutenberg for music. From Beethoven to Bach, Mutopia provides nearly 2,000 copies of the sheet music to your favorite classics.

  • ibiblio Linux Archive goes BitTorrent

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    In 1992, ibiblio began began accepting and redistributing open source software projects into its Linux software archive. These projects consisted mainly of tar or gzipped source code bundles, combined with descriptive metadata called a Linux Software Map. Since then, the ibiblio Linux Archive grew to 12 GB in size. Project hosting sites (e.g. Sourceforge, Github, and Launchpad) and the development of Linux distribution package repositories extended the success of the Linux Archive.

    The Linux Archive is no longer accepting submissions. It currently represents a snapshot of open source software projects from the early 1990′s until the mid-2000′s. The archive contains over 5000 items and is available for download via BitTorrent from terasaur.org. An 8.5 GB bundle of the entire archive is available as a single torrent.  Beware, the file listing is loooooooooooooooooooooooong.