[ubuntu-uk] Click downloaded Ubuntu

[Harry Rickards]

On 3 May 2009, at 21:38, Michael Douglas <mehall at mehall.co.cc> wrote:

> You're certainly better off than trying to get the Windows 7 Beta,  
> or in
> 2 days, the RC. It took MSFT about 10hours just to make the thing
> available!!!
>
> -- Mehall
>
> Simos Xenitellis wrote:
>> On Sun, May 3, 2009 at 9:22 PM, Harry Rickards <hrickards at l33tmyst.com 
>> > wrote:
>>
>>> On 3 May 2009, at 21:18, David King <linuxman at avoura.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>> I was watching the BBC News 24 TV programme "Click" broadcast this
>>>> weekend. When they were testing a 100 Mbit/s broadband connection,
>>>> they
>>>> used it to download two copies of Ubuntu 9.04 simultaneously. A  
>>>> good
>>>> advert for Ubuntu.
>>>>
>>> Just out of interest, how long did it take?
>>>
>>
>> It showed only a short segment of the download, demonstrating that
>> the download speed was about 77Mbps. It appeared that the issue of  
>> choosing
>> the Ubuntu ISO had to do with the availability of a fast distribution
>> server, so one can
>> put together a simple benchmark. Still, this was good.
>>
>> If you get 'get_iplayer' (http://linuxcentre.net/iplayer), then you
>> can download the episode
>> with
>>
>> get_iplayer --get 128               (expires on the 10th May)
>>
>> Simos
>>
>>

That's Microsoft for you! :P

Many thanks
Harry Rickards (a.k.a l33tmyst)