[ubuntu-us-ut] Bittorrent Obscurity

[Charles Curley]

On Thu, Oct 18, 2007 at 12:54:56PM -0600, Mike Basinger wrote:
> My theory is that Canonical is making downloads easy to find for new
> users, and not confusing the newbies with torrents. They probably figure
> people who want the torrent will go looking for them.

It's an interesting theory. If so, Canonical is being short
sighted. By not encouraging the newbies to use BT, they get their
servers swamped, which annoys everyone.

Being new to Ubuntu I figured if they had BT, they'd have advertised
it. Not seeing it, I started the usual http process. It took me three
hours to get ticked off enough to go searching for the BT
pages. Clearly that policy failed, at least with me.

Before I started my BT client, I tried a network upgrade via apt-cache
on one of my machines, and about one in three downloads to the
apt-cache server failed. This suggests that the regular servers,
normally quite responsive, are badly swamped. I may just abort that,
pull in the xubuntu CD, and upgrade from that.

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