Ubuntu Slashdoted......

[bhursey]

Well if you have noticed the slow upgrade speed if you are trying to do an upgrade on your system. It could be because this morning. The release was reported on slashdot.... ;) This is good for the distro, but bad if you are trying to download 200+ packages... :D

http://linux.slashdot.org/linux/05/10/13/124243.shtml?tid=106

[magomago]

Well if you have noticed the slow upgrade speed if you are trying to do an upgrade on your system. It could be because this morning. The release was reported on slashdot.... ;) This is good for the distro, but bad if you are trying to download 200+ packages... :D

http://linux.slashdot.org/linux/05/10/13/124243.shtml?tid=106
In the shortrun, being slashdotted destroys a site's bandwith, but I think the long term effects are generally worth it ;)
Sacrifice now to gain later~

[bhursey]

In the shortrun, being slashdotted destroys a site's bandwith, but I think the long term effects are generally worth it ;)
Sacrifice now to gain later~
exactley :)

[jasongrieves]

Yeah I had 2 packages to download it took like 10 minutes :)

[bhursey]

Yeah I had 2 packages to download it took like 10 minutes :)

I am on 11 of 58 with 1 h and 20 min left. Going at 40k normaly I get 150- 200.

[gmc]

...and it's going to get worse... the story is on www.digg.com

G.

[bhursey]

...and it's going to get worse... the story is on www.digg.com

G.


I hope the servers can hold up. We need to spread the word for people to use bittorent if they can... I have my ISO seedding at home right now. Also we need to tell people if they have the bandwith to spair to seed the ISO. :D

[matthew]

...and it's going to get worse... the story is on www.digg.com (http://www.digg.com)

G.
I agree with the earlier posters...bummer for the moment, but great for the long run.

[GIBson3]

I'll Seed the ISO (when I get home) heh assuming I can actually get it downloaded ;)

I'm a Debain convert been watching Ubuntu for a few months and and decided to give the PR a run... it still feels like Debian, but somehow a tad more friendly ;)

I noticed the /. post this morning, I had totally forgotten about today being the 13th before I left the house this morning >.< I really hope it helps get more people over to Ubuntu, it's a nice distro.

Oh well Synaptic is Grinding it's way along here at work, I'll go Code something for now


~GIBson3 :D

[magomago]

I hope the servers can hold up. We need to spread the word for people to use bittorent if they can... I have my ISO seedding at home right now. Also we need to tell people if they have the bandwith to spair to seed the ISO. :D
I guess i'll boot up back into windows for the first time in a looong time...so i can torrent Breezy for ya guys ;) Ironically enough, only bitcomet works at my campus because somehow the program doesn't get sent to the lowest priority by the packetshaper

hehe...using windows to spread linux ;)

[bhursey]

Oh well Synaptic is Grinding it's way along here at work, I'll go Code something for now


~GIBson3 :D


Im studying Linear sorting and Heap sorting for my algoritums class while Synaptic Grinds away.:D Test at 4pm :(

[GIBson3]

Im studying Linear sorting and Heap sorting for my algoritums class while Synaptic Grinds away.:D Test at 4pm :(

I'm working on a backend to dump vehicle information into a database, I think you've got the better deal...

~GIBson3 :D

[bhursey]

I'm working on a backend to dump vehicle information into a database, I think you've got the better deal...

~GIBson3 :D

Off Topic: PHP? I just developed an inventory system for keeping track of hardware at my school. :D

[skirkpatrick]

I'm doing functional testing on a video poker kiosk. It doesn't take long to get REALLY bored with it.

I'm seeding the ISO but it doesn't help the repositories :(

[bhursey]

I'm doing functional testing on a video poker kiosk. It doesn't take long to get REALLY bored with it.

I'm seeding the ISO but it doesn't help the repositories :(

If the ISO and repositories are sharing the same bandwith it may help them a little. But there is no stoping the flood... We need to just ride it out, and try to help in ways like seeding. ;)

[Mr_J_]

Dunno if any knows, but Ubuntu Breezy Badger has also been mentioned in www.kirupa.com which has little to no connection to the linux or open world.
It's mainly a Flash related site, so the infection is spreading nicely!

[bhursey]

Dunno if any knows, but Ubuntu Breezy Badger has also been mentioned in www.kirupa.com which has little to no connection to the linux or open world.
It's mainly a Flash related site, so the infection is spreading nicely!

Its also on distrowatch.com http://distrowatch.com/?newsid=02965#0 Thank god they mainly linked the torrents.

[chadwick359]

Im studying Linear sorting and Heap sorting for my algoritums class while Synaptic Grinds away. Test at 4pm


I'm frantically trying to get JRE 1.5 to run on breezy for my coding midterm at 3, and synaptic isn't helping.

[qalimas]

Wow... the bandwidth must seriously be thin, it won't even download the package listings, it keeps trying to connect O_O

[bhursey]

Wow... the bandwidth must seriously be thin, it won't even download the package listings, it keeps trying to connect O_O

Its bad... We need some repository mirrors for breezy. Does any one know if there are any up?

[BLTicklemonster]

Can't you seed the DVD? Doesn't it have most of what you need repository wise?


Oh, and it wasnt me what /. ed!!! I wanted to, but didn't.

[bhursey]

Can't you seed the DVD? Doesn't it have most of what you need repository wise?


Oh, and it wasnt me what /. ed!!! I wanted to, but didn't.

From what I understaned the DVD is just the Live cd and the Install cd in one. I may be mistaken though..

[GIBson3]

Off Topic: PHP? I just developed an inventory system for keeping track of hardware at my school. :D

Nope "Enterprise level java" is the syntax of the day. That's all I can say unfortunately NDA got my tongue ;)

~GIBson3 :D

[UbuWu]

From what I understaned the DVD is just the Live cd and the Install cd in one. I may be mistaken though..

Plus all of main (including kde etc.)

[BLTicklemonster]

Get your friends together, and let's all go browse the topic http://linux.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/10/13/124243&tid=106 at the same time...

:)

[iwan-nl]

I'm frantically trying to get JRE 1.5 to run on breezy for my coding midterm at 3, and synaptic isn't helping.
Java is no longer in the repositories, but you can download JRE 5.0 Linux (self-extracting file) from java.com.

[xequence]

I think it is so cool one website, such as slashdot, has so much power :P

I was downloading x devs from the repos and it was going at a couple hundred bytes per second. 8248 BPS right now... It did get up to 14 KBPS.

Oh, and JRE is in the add programs thing in breezy.

[poofyhairguy]

Every time Slashdot has an Ubuntu story on the frontpage I get mod points. I almost never get mod points otherwise.

Its like a slashdot higher up knows I want them only on that day. Because I use them. This time I modded up a post about the automatix project.

Please help test it!

[buster]

I used the bit torrent source listed in Distrowatch. Used Azureus. Had the i386 install iso in just over an hour. Fastest I've ever had with bit torrent. There were over 1000 in the swarm! So it's quick. Apparently you can now use the disc and Synaptic to upgrade:

https://wiki.ubuntu.com/BreezyUpgradeNotes

[Goober]

from Digg:

"Plese use the torrents to help the server."

Ya, I noticed this site seemed to take longer then normal to load, although I guess its not totally the same as the servers. Only 2 updates today, not hundreds as in the past week . . .

[bjweeks]

from Digg:

"Plese use the torrents to help the server."

Ya, I noticed this site seemed to take longer then normal to load, although I guess its not totally the same as the servers. Only 2 updates today, not hundreds as in the past week . . .
I tried my best not to kill the server. :) (I posted it on digg.;) )

[bhursey]

I tried my best not to kill the server. :) (I posted it on digg.;) )

Nice, Thanks ;)