[DC LoCo] reducing canonical's distribution costs

[Keith Howell]

On 10/10/2010 03:02 PM, Kenneth Stailey wrote:
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> --- On Sun, 10/10/10, Phil Shapiro<pshapiro at his.com>  wrote:
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>> From: Phil Shapiro<pshapiro at his.com>
>> Subject: [DC LoCo] reducing canonical's distribution costs
>> To: ubuntu-us-dc at lists.ubuntu.com
>> Date: Sunday, October 10, 2010, 1:37 PM
>> hi ubuntistas,
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>>      here's a simple idea for reducing canonical's
>> distribution costs for ubuntu 10.10.
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> Umm, why not just pull from a mirror?
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> https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+cdmirrors
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The mirrors get swamped on launch day and can be very slow. DL via 
torrent and then seed the file for a while helps everyone to get a copy 
quickly.

-- 
Keith