Openoffice website - slow/not responding?

[ww711]

Is anyone else experiencing this same problem?

Will the ubuntu site have the same problem(s) when II 8.10 is out?

[Delever]

Because it is written with Java :D

[steeleyuk]

Is anyone else experiencing this same problem?

Will the ubuntu site have the same problem(s) when II 8.10 is out?

Yes and most probably.

[fatality_uk]

It's dead as a dodo. Give it a few hours and should be back up and running.

Bi-anually, Ubuntu.com grinds to a halt. Unless you have a pressing need to get the VERY latest release, I would wait a few days and then download, or better still use a torrent. Last option, upgrade to the BETA and then let it roll up to the latest release.

[PartisanEntity]

I get 403 Forbidden when trying to view openoffice.org

[felker2]

You can download from mirrors like http://ftp.surfnet.nl/pub/office/openoffice/stable/3.0.0/ and http://ftp.surfnet.nl/pub/office/openoffice/localized/

HTH

[Corfy]

Just got this email...


All,

We must apologize. OpenOffice.org 3.0 is proving immensely,
staggeringly popular. And our site is down as a result. While we fix
things, we urge you to be patient and try again later on tonight,
tomorrow, this week. It will still be there.

Oh, by popular, we mean it: figure hundreds of thousands of users,
mostly Windows users, but also Mac OS X and Linux and Solaris users,
all trying to download it all at once.....

Cheers, and thanks for your patience,
Louis

[mikewhatever]

Any torrents out there? I feel bad to use their overloaded mirrors at the moment.

Update: Got it from Google, if anyone's interested.
http://borft.student.utwente.nl/~adrian/bt.php

[_sAm_]

OpenOffice has a new portal; http://oooportal.com/

You will find downloadlink there.

[ww711]

Site is still down, but have found other mirrors.

Oh and 'lol' at the mod who tagged the thread with more 'power scotty'.

I'm surprised that a piece of software can cause a website to go down/go offline, simply because it's so popular? Similar thing happened to mozilla when FF3 cameout...same for ubuntu HH 8.04...capacity planning out the window?!?!

[Twitch6000]

Site is still down, but have found other mirrors.

Oh and 'lol' at the mod who tagged the thread with more 'power scotty'.

I'm surprised that a piece of software can cause a website to go down/go offline, simply because it's so popular? Similar thing happened to mozilla when FF3 cameout...same for ubuntu HH 8.04...capacity planning out the window?!?!

This is why torrents are your friend =].

[ww711]

indeed torrents are the way forward, someone inform their technical team!