And.....You're Right on Time!

[Exsecrabilus]

Do they release each new distribution just at midnight or around that time?

Because if they are, I'm willing to stay up late just for that.

[imbjr]

Close to UK midnight, I shall be running the following:


#!/bin/sh

DOWNLOADED="N"
while [ $DOWNLOADED = "N" ]
do
if
wget http://releases.ubuntu.com/hardy/ubuntu-8.04-desktop-i386.iso.torrent
then
DOWNLOADED="Y"
else
DOWNLOADED="N"
sleep 300
fi
done

deluge ubuntu-8.04-desktop-i386.iso.torrent


Every 5 minutes it will look for what I expect the appropriate BitTorrent will be called. Once it gets it, deluge will download the ISO.

Feel free to adopt, but as ever - buyer beware.

[imbjr]

*Sigh*

Why is it that something I quote gets mangled!?

Hovering one's cursor over the torrent URL will however reveal the correct location.

[Exsecrabilus]

How faster or slower is UK compared to the New York-Pennsylvania-Connecticut-New Jersey-Maryland area?

[imbjr]

Canonical is UK-owned, so the earliest time to expect to see 8.4 release is 12 midmight BST.

As for your location, NY time is 5 hours behind BST, around 7 pm NY local time is when to start expecting the ISO/torrent to appear.

[twright]

just copy and paste and the outcome will be normal*Sigh*

Why is it that something I quote gets mangled!?

Hovering one's cursor over the torrent URL will however reveal the correct location.

why not just upgrade to the release candidate using update-manager -d, this time updating via update manager seems to be smoother but it still seems to break suspend and hibernate for me