[ubuntu-za] Ubuntu release date and time

[Angotull]

Im curretly running the online upgrade. Damn I hope I dont ruin my
installation. Still some 900 files to go :(

On Thu, Oct 30, 2008 at 12:10 PM, Vijay Makanjee <vijay at ergo.co.za> wrote:

> Thanks Morgan
>
> that's a usefull tip
>
> Vijay
>
> Vijay Makanjee
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>
> Morgan Collett wrote:
> > On Thu, Oct 30, 2008 at 11:27, Vijay Makanjee <vijay at ergo.co.za> wrote:
> >> so is the release date and time based on SA/GMT or US time?
> >
> > When the release manager thinks it's ready, and when the important
> > mirrors have synced... The "daily" snapshot CD image was changed 5
> > times yesterday so there were definitely some last minute fixes
> > required.
> >
> > The goal is definitely to announce the release while it is still Oct
> > 30 *somewhere* in the world :)
> >
> > For future reference, you can get the release ahead of time by getting
> > an earlier ISO (beta, rc or a daily snapshot) and rsyncing it to the
> > current daily snapshot with the instructions provided at
> > https://help.ubuntu.com/community/RsyncCdImage - by the time the
> > release is announced, the image will be the final one. A couple of
> > days ago I rsynced the beta iso to daily-live and it needed to
> > download 301 MB. Today, to rsync to the current daily-live, an
> > additional 60MB.
> >
> > If you are going to download the ISO and you have an earlier one, I do
> > recommend rsync. I think there's a trick where you can do it with
> > bittorrent too and only download the changed portion of the ISO, but I
> > don't remember how.
> >
> > Regards
> > Morgan
> >
>
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