Ubuntu 14.04 LTS

Re:Ubuntu 14.04 LTS by shacharz on Friday April 18, 2014 @07:21AM (#7608767)

Why is the download so slow? Why not add a torrent link?

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Re:Ubuntu 14.04 LTS by Cameron_D on Friday April 18, 2014 @07:52AM (#7608833)

There are torrent links on the Alternative Downloads page: http://www.ubuntu.com/download/alternative-downloads

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Re:Ubuntu 14.04 LTS by broodbucket on Friday April 18, 2014 @08:16AM (#7608881)

Use a local mirror, there's plenty out there. Here in Australia, quota-free downloads from the ISP's mirrors is really convenient.

https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+cdmirrors

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Re:Ubuntu 14.04 LTS by leaveyou on Friday April 18, 2014 @07:31AM (#7608793)

Ubuntu is more popular than you would think :). I used torrents to download it and it went quite fast (huge numbers of seeders). Here you can find torrent links: reddit.com/r/Ubuntu/comments/239wbp/1404_is_live/

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Re:Ubuntu 14.04 LTS by HNaTTY on Friday April 18, 2014 @10:26AM (#7609236)

I was able to basically saturate my connection downloading the torrent, 10.3mb/s. 10 hours later I'm still at a ratio of 0.038. Kind of surprising how many folks are seeding.

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Re:Ubuntu 14.04 LTS by leaveyou on Friday April 18, 2014 @11:50AM (#7609648)

Yes, everyone tries to contribute with bandwidth :D. On reddit/ubuntu they advised us to do it in order to relieve some of the strain on Canonical servers and it was funny how many people were literally waiting & refreshing the page for the torrents to be available.

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Re:Ubuntu 14.04 LTS by dutchbrit on Friday April 18, 2014 @10:03AM (#7609151)

Downloading at 2mb p/s here - if you want I can mirror it for you on a gigabit connection?

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