8.04 and bittorrent

[Brad Opferman]

All torrent links seems to be down. Does anyone have a link to a torrent 
file elsewhere?

Thanks,

Brad Opferman


chuck adams wrote:
> The bittorrent download is available for 8.04, and in fact I
> am downloading as we speak.  Looks like about 45 mins
> or less using a 1.5M link to the Internet.
>
> Using ktorrent and the torrent files are at
>
> http://releases.ubuntu.com/kubuntu/8.04/kubuntu-8.04-desktop-amd64.iso.torrent
>
> and
>
> http://releases.ubuntu.com/kubuntu/8.04/kubuntu-8.04-desktop-i386.iso.torrent
>
> Try it.  I started a 'wget' and that was going to take 12 hours or more.   
> ktorrent is the way to go and you also help by starting a download as your 
> system seeds a part of the distribution.  The more the merrier.  And if you
> can leave ktorrent running on a system for the next week or so, you'll help
> a lot of people.  The tendency is for people to download and then terminate
> ktorrent.  That doesn't help if a lot of people don't help seed for the others
> that follow.  FYI.
>
> Hope this helps someone not familiar with the package.  It may start out a
> little slow, but it will speed up as the system gets more time to work out
> the load among every one else connected and seeding the distro.
>
>
> try
>
> ktorrent  
> http://releases.ubuntu.com/kubuntu/8.04/kubuntu-8.04-desktop-amd64.iso.torrent 
>
> all on one liine in a terminal window.
>
>
> Chuck
>
>