[ubuntu-us-in] getting Jaunty... responsibly... locally..?

[Michael Schultheiss]

David Ernst wrote:
> I'm sure there's a million people who will also want to download it
> very soon after it's available.  Which leads me to wonder: what's the
> best way to do that?  Surely a million people each downloading 700M is
> not good for ubuntu.com, they have some mirror sites but not all that
> many... 
> 
> Should I just join bit-torrent?  Does IU or someone else in Indiana
> have ways to get?  Any advice?

The best way to download for the community as a whole is to use
bittorrent.  IU has a local mirror at
http://ftp.ussg.iu.edu/linux/ubuntu-releases/ but due to that site's
popularity there's some traffic shaping on that machine.