On 4/20/05, Graham gt@pobox.com wrote:
On Wednesday 20 April 2005 20:37, Tim Green wrote:
How about BitTorrenting the iso images? A good way to get the latest when everyone wants it too.
I'm not with you. The CD/DVD images available are a 3.1GB DVD and a 64MB boot CD. Unless you have lots of machines to install it's simplest to use the boot CD to install direct from the FTP server and from other sources such as PackMan. My favourite is the UK Mirror Service, on the list indicated by Wayne. A default build is around 1.5GB, only half the DVD.
I was thinking of the recent release of Ubuntu as a prime example. One CD of about 700MB contains just about everything you need to boot, install and get to work.
Not sure what you meant about BitTorrent - I associate that with peer-peer file sharing, an unnecessarily slow way of getting stuff that's already freely available on fast servers.
You might think they're fast servers, but when one's distribution is flavour of the month there is a lot of bandwidth chewed up in a short space of time. BitTorrent takes the pressure off by sharing the bandwidth, and I from my experience it downloads at the full speed of one's line. BitTorrent works best with flavours of the month, because the sharing improves when more people try to download at the same time.
Tim.