Hoary Download?

[paul cooke]

On Friday 08 April 2005 19:58, tom scott wrote:
> On Fri, 2005-04-08 at 10:53, jfdill_2 wrote:
> > I found a link to a mirror site in another post that works and appears
> > to have the release version since it's called "ubuntu-5.04" and not
> > "hoary-X."  I'm going to see if I can upload the torrents as
> > attachments or something, forum admins feel free to do whatever it
> > that's not kosher...
> >
> > http://ubuntu.mirrors.tds.net/releases/5.04/
>
> I'm feel like the last person at the party to know what's going on. Can
> someone explains the difference between the mirror downloads and the
> bitorrents? I downloaded the whole 615307264 bytes from a US mirror at
> about 500 kbps (about 1/3 DS1 or 8xDS0, which is pretty good for my DSL).
> Is there an advantage to bitorrent, or maybe better netizen policy so as
> not to take bandwidth from the mirrors?

bittorrent takes the load off the servers because the bandwidth is coming from 
the downloaders themselves as they are uploading stuff to other members of 
the torrent.

of course leechers are a pain for us as they disconnect from the swarm after 
they've got their copy and fail to put up the same number of megabytes 
upstream that they've pulled down their connection.

>
> (Background: I tried jigdo once or twice with debian but failed miserably.
> I never could figure it out. Is bitorrent any easier?)
>

I have never gotten jigdo to work either when trying to prepare mandrake cd 
isos from a DVD version. You're not the only one left bemused by that 
program.