[Cialug] Jaunty?

[David Champion]

Linux distros need to start using P2P for their update systems.

Mandriva uses torrents for their .iso downloads, some people complain 
that it's not fast enough... but for a "small" commercial distro like 
them, it would be impossible for them to have enough bandwidth to run a 
conventional FTP or HTTP server for downloading all of those .iso 
images, especially since they've gone to a larger DVD image.

I did find this site - and they have trackers for Ubuntu / Kubuntu 
9.04... I don't know anything about the site, but I'd at least do a md5 
check to make sure your image matches the official .iso.

http://linuxtracker.org/

-dc

TJ Vance wrote:
> I did the upgrade back at Beta1, I think the servers are just slammed 
> today.  Tried getting updates for an intrepid box today, also very slow.
>
> TJ
>
> On Thu, Apr 23, 2009 at 1:13 PM, David Champion <dave at dchamp.net 
> <mailto:dave at dchamp.net>> wrote:
>
>     Just curious, have any of you tried to update your Ubuntu 8.10 to 9.04
>     "Jaunty Jackalope" today? I attempted to update my Kubuntu 8.10 VM
>     image, and it said it had trouble talking to the server, after
>     downloading the update packages. I can't imagine that the servers
>     would
>     be busy today or anything...
>
>     I'll probably just wait a while and try it again. I don't use that
>     VM on
>     a daily basis anyway.
>
>     -dc
>