Location of main server for Ubuntu

[Karl Larsen]

On 04/08/2010 09:52 AM, Fred Roller wrote:
> On 04/08/2010 10:28 AM, Basil Chupin wrote:
>    
>> On 08/04/10 23:06, Fred Roller wrote:
>>
>>      
>>> On 04/08/2010 08:12 AM, Basil Chupin wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>        
>>>> Being new to Ubuntu I don't know the answer to this question which would
>>>> have been asked and answered probably many times before:
>>>>
>>>> in which part of the world is the main server located for Ubuntu releases?
>>>>
>>>> I know that Canonical is a Europe based company, but where are the
>>>> servers located?
>>>>
>>>> Reason for asking: when it is stated that Ubuntu Beta 2, say, is
>>>> scheduled for release on 8 April is this as per the date in Europe or
>>>> the date somewhere to the west of London? In a couple of hours here
>>>> (east coast of Australia) it will be 9 April and in 11 hours in London
>>>> it will also be 9 April but to the west it will still be 8 April......
>>>>
>>>> (Is there a "usual" hour of the day when a release is available from the
>>>> main server? morning, around noon, evening...?)
>>>>
>>>> BC
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>          
>>> Freezes normally happen at the start of the given date, UTC time.
>>>
>>>         https://wiki.ubuntu.com/LucidReleaseSchedule
>>>         http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/
>>>
>>> Surmising they use UTC across the board.  Hope this helps.
>>>
>>>
>>>        
>> Thanks for this.
>>
>> Well, the 'freeze' happened a week ago and that don't interest me :-) .
>>
>> But from what you state, I conclude that the start of the given date UTC
>> time would mean that for me Beta 2 will be released on 9 April.
>> <Sigh....hours to wait! :-)>
>>
>> BC
>>
>>
>>
>>      
> Patients delivers insights to ourselves...
>
> The "freezes" line was supposed to just be a quote but you got it's
> point despite me. :-P
>
> Glad to help.
>
>    
         I have been using Lucid since Alpha one and it's a great 
system! I would get lots of updates every day but today April 8 I got 
zero updates. Perhaps a coincidence, but I think not. We are at Beta two 
right now!


73 Karl


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