[ubuntu-uk] Click downloaded Ubuntu

[Farran Lee]

On Sun, 2009-05-03 at 21:38 +0100, Michael Douglas 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
> >
> >   
> 


how funny
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Farran Lee
I'm only 16 :P
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