[ubuntu-nz] lucid release party in christchurch on thursday 29th?

[Bruce Kingsbury]

On 28 April 2010 15:53, Jaco van der Merwe <freakalad at yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
>>WLUG will be holding a 'release party'
>
> Hate to be the party-pooper here, guys, but will the distro's even be available on Thursday? (Sat should be OK)
> NZ is waaaay early in terms of global-time, and based on past experiences (Jaunty release-party), the images may only be available the next morning (provided the servers haven't been been overloaded), unless you're happy with late-beta's.
>
> - J

Even Saturday is pushing it, previous releases have not been announced
until "the last hour of the last timezone" making them available here
well into the second day after the official release date. To have a
release party on the 29th is great, but your party will be over and
done before the official 'release' is announced.

Although if you plan to install anything I've always found they stop
doing daily builds a day or two beforehand and the last one has always
been MD5-identical to the announced release, so go ahead and install
that. It'll probably be the same thing or near enough.