Preferred Download Method for Downloading ISO Image

[NoOp]

On 12/09/2010 11:56 PM, 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.

jigdo and zsync are useful for updating daily/nightly images:

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/JigdoDownloadHowto

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/ZsyncCdImage
http://zsync.moria.org.uk/
http://manpages.ubuntu.com/manpages/hardy/man1/zsync.1.html

metalink is used for torrents - open the file & you'll see.
<http://releases.ubuntu.com/maverick/ubuntu-10.10-desktop-i386.metalink>
Also see:
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Metalink
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/BitTorrent

Personally I use grsync. I set the download speed so that it doesn't
take up my entire bandwidth (I can browse, post here, etc) while
downloading. And I can easily start, pause, cancel, etc., all from a
nice gui interface).
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/rsync
[Grsync section]