Ubuntu 8.04 "Hardy Heron" now shipping

[Norman Ma]

Yes, I suggest BitTorrent as well. I'm seeding ;)

I have noticed however that updating via apt-get or Synaptic isn't working,
on fresh installs and updates on all my computers.

Is that what you mean by the downloads not working?

Norman

On Fri, Apr 25, 2008 at 2:54 PM, Daniel Mons <daniel.mons at iinet.net.au>
wrote:

>
> Tim Neill wrote:
> > is anybody else having trouble getting the downloads to work for Hardy?
>
> Ubuntu gets more and more popular with each release.  Expect all mirrors
> worldwide to be utterly hammered for at least the next few days.
>
> My suggestion is to grab it via bittorrent:
>
> http://torrent.ubuntu.com:6969/
>
> BitTorrent as a protocol increases aggregate bandwidth as demand
> increases.  It solves it's own problem of delivering bandwidth to
> high-demand networks, versus static http/ftp servers which crumble under
> high load.
>
> I used BitTorrent to grab all 6 CDs (desktop, server and alternate in
> i386 and x86-64 flavours) today in just a few hours on my DSL
> connection.  There are many thousands of seeds out there in all countries.
>
> -Dan
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