Preferred Download Method for Downloading ISO Image

Andrew Farris flyindragon1 at aol.com
Fri Dec 10 10:31:24 UTC 2010


On Fri, 2010-12-10 at 13:26 +0530, Kaushal Shriyan wrote:
> Hi
> 
> As per http://releases.ubuntu.com/ which is the preferred method to
> download any .iso file and any specific reason to use any of the below
> mentioned method.
> 
> jigdo or zsync or torrent or metalink
> 
> Please guide/suggest further.

if your ISP doesn't frown upon bittorrents, then I'd go with that option
for the speed, and to take a load off of the image servers...

Otherwise, I'd just directly download the image directly from a mirror
in the list... no idea about zsync, jigdo, or metalink though...sorry.

-- 
Andrew
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