Ubuntu 8.04 "Hardy Heron" now shipping

[Norman Ma]

My bad, they're working now. Probably just the servers being hammered, which
is understandable.

Norman

On Fri, Apr 25, 2008 at 4:18 PM, Norman Ma <norm1991 at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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