StooJ
August 21st, 2007, 10:11 AM
I'm not really sure if anyone in Ubuntuforums has much to do with the Ubuntu.com website, but it's worth a shot.
I love torrents. They are a great way to download, they help the community to share files and they help the host website to spread the traffic load. I don't know if they are technically better at downloading large files, but my experience was 2 corrupted isos downloaded with http, from then on I used torrents and never had a corrupted iso.
Sure, they might take a little longer, but it's just more time to anticipate the new distro, the new installation wizard, showing off a live Ubuntu DVD to people.
So how come they are suddenly quite difficult to find on the Ubuntu website? Do torrents put people off when they aren't confident computer users? Are torrents going to be phased out as a distribution method for the latest Ubuntu distros?
There is a lovely , easy to use online wizard for getting their perfect, locally hosted Live CD, but torrents have been buried at the very end of the complete list of download mirrors (http://www.ubuntu.com/getubuntu/downloadmirrors), which states at the top of the page: "If possible, use our enhanced download page." The Enhanced Download Page is the wizard.
Does this mean Ubuntu would prefer me to download the CD directly from their site rather than downloading the DVD via a torrent?
I'd love torrents to be a little more obvious. Perhaps on the page with the "Start Download" button there could be an "alternatively, download the torrent file and get Ubuntu via bittorrent" or something. I know that means you have to explain what bittorrent is again, but the link is there for people who want the DVD and don't know to hunt the bottom of the mirrors list. (I missed it the first time I looked, thinking "This is just a list of http mirrors" - I guess I'm a typically lazy user)
It's just a suggestion, and I hope it's not in the wrong place.
I love torrents. They are a great way to download, they help the community to share files and they help the host website to spread the traffic load. I don't know if they are technically better at downloading large files, but my experience was 2 corrupted isos downloaded with http, from then on I used torrents and never had a corrupted iso.
Sure, they might take a little longer, but it's just more time to anticipate the new distro, the new installation wizard, showing off a live Ubuntu DVD to people.
So how come they are suddenly quite difficult to find on the Ubuntu website? Do torrents put people off when they aren't confident computer users? Are torrents going to be phased out as a distribution method for the latest Ubuntu distros?
There is a lovely , easy to use online wizard for getting their perfect, locally hosted Live CD, but torrents have been buried at the very end of the complete list of download mirrors (http://www.ubuntu.com/getubuntu/downloadmirrors), which states at the top of the page: "If possible, use our enhanced download page." The Enhanced Download Page is the wizard.
Does this mean Ubuntu would prefer me to download the CD directly from their site rather than downloading the DVD via a torrent?
I'd love torrents to be a little more obvious. Perhaps on the page with the "Start Download" button there could be an "alternatively, download the torrent file and get Ubuntu via bittorrent" or something. I know that means you have to explain what bittorrent is again, but the link is there for people who want the DVD and don't know to hunt the bottom of the mirrors list. (I missed it the first time I looked, thinking "This is just a list of http mirrors" - I guess I'm a typically lazy user)
It's just a suggestion, and I hope it's not in the wrong place.