[Cialug] Jaunty?

[Nick Fox]

You could also maintain a local apt-cache server to resolve your issues. 
Or just adopt earlier as I did (Alpha 3ish) :)

-Nick

David Champion wrote:
> 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
>>
>>     
>
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