[ubuntu-uk] Hardy available now

James Westby jw+debian at jameswestby.net
Thu Apr 24 13:29:00 BST 2008


On Thu, 2008-04-24 at 13:24 +0100, Chris Oattes wrote:
> It is generally a Bad Idea to start downloading it before it is 
> officially announced. They put the isos on the main mirrors so that the 
> other mirrors around the world can start downloading them. If you start 
> downloading before the announcement, it takes longer for the necessary 
> number of mirrors to get a copy because you steal their bandwidth, and 
> therefore delay the release announcement.

While you are exactly right, and the bandwidth you get to ubuntu
machines



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