[nzlug] Ubuntu Mirrors? (was International traffic really slow)

[t94xr]

Has anyone noticed ISOs being placed up on that Citylink server that has 
a RC tag on it?
Could these ISOs be Finals renamed to RC to throw people off downloading 
them until the last minute?

Camz

Leon Matthews wrote:
> Thanks for all the info, folks.
>
> Jijdo sounds like a nice tool.  I went through enough pain some years back
> with the first version of Debian's ISO building tool (which may well have
> been the first version of Jijdo, for all I can recall...) to scare me away
> from such things, but perhaps it's time to look into it again.
>
> The nice people at Citylink have removed the RC isos from the gutsy
> directory, presumably in preparation of the final release.
>
> http://ftp.citylink.co.nz/ubuntu-releases/gutsy/
>
> We've just done a big round of hardware upgrades at work (we're now 60%
> Linux desktops and servers, 40% Apple desktops, and 0% anything else), so
> I'm farming out the old gear to friends and relatives -- Darik's Boot n'
> Nuke (http://dban.sourceforge.net/), followed by brand new Gutsy
> installations.
>
> It'll be a long weekend in more ways than one, but great to spread some
> Linux action around...
>
> Thanks again,
>
> 	Leon
>
> --
> Leon Matthews BSc
> Technical Director, Messiah Ltd.
> http://www.messiah.co.nz/
>
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