[ale] Kubuntu Dapper -- New KDE :)

[Fulton Green]

On Thu, Jun 01, 2006 at 03:39:44PM -0400, Steve Brown wrote:
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> Date: Thu, 1 Jun 2006 14:32:21 -0400
> From: Paul Cartwright <paul_tbot at pcartwright.com>
> Subject: Re: [ale] Kubuntu Dapper -- New KDE :)
> To: Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts <ale at ale.org>
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> On Thu June 1 2006 2:17 pm, Fulton Green wrote:
> > So speaking of ((K|Ed|X)?)ubuntu, any local mirrors we can take
> > advantage of?
> 
> I used the US mirror http site:
> http://us.releases.ubuntu.com/releases/kubuntu/dapper/kubuntu-6.06-desktop-i386.iso
> 
> I've got about 29 minutes left til it finishes.. started way before
> lunch.  seamonkey says 35.8KB rate
> --
> Paul Cartwright
> Registered Linux user # 367800
> 
> 
> I guess it's too late now, but why not just use bittorrent? I did so last
> night and finished the whole thing in about 40 min (it was faster than the
> mirror I tried first). Not only that, but you get the satisfaction of
> seeding the torrent :)

I tried BitTorrent, but at first, the servers were so busy they couldn't
even serve up the BitTorrent seed file.  But now I'm at around 3 Mb/s so
I'm somewhat happy ...