[TriLUG] Downloading Ubuntu

Greg Brown gwbrown1 at gmail.com
Thu Oct 13 13:05:10 EDT 2005


I grabbed my iso via wget.  I started at 09:06:58 and finished at 10:20:41.

Greg

On 10/13/05, Rick DeNatale <rick.denatale at gmail.com> wrote:
> So, since today is Breezy Badger day, and since I'm going to need to
> rebuild my laptop after the hard drive died anyway, I decided to
> download the isos.  I figured that bittorent might do well since the
> files should be pretty popular so there should be quite a few peers to
> share with.
>
> As I type this I'm about 2:30 into downloading the i386 install ISO
> with another 2:30 estimated to go.
>
> I'm also downloading the live-cd which started about 5 minutes later
> and has 1:40 estimated to go.
>
> I'm wondering if any other tri-luggers were doing the same and what
> kind of performance they were seeing.
>
> I'll probably also download the kubuntu breezy isos as well, although
> I intend to install ubuntu and then apt-get the kubuntu additions.
> Unlike some others (Tanner?) I don't mind having gnome as well as kde
> installed.
>
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