Does Red Hack suck?

[four of six defective]

I pulled the Ubuntu iso disk down with in a few hours at most.
The mirror I used worked fine for me.  This was with a cable connection.
Maybe you should try another mirror.

Eric Dunbar wrote:

>On Tue, 09 Nov 2004 16:18:58 +1100, philip <philip at hereweare.org> wrote:
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>>        A few weeks ago a friend recommended I try Ubuntu...What the hey. I
>>have been using it now for about three weeks and for my needs on an
>>aging G3 Ubuntu is more than adequate.  It works sound and all, with the
>>ati video driver all working seamlessly. This from a single cd iso and
>>mirror sites that  makes terrasoft ftp look very tired. The installer is
>>not anaconda, it is different, seems pretty much idiot proof and
>>designed with the complete newbie novice in mind.
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>One (whinghy) complaint: there are few mirrors for Ubuntu. In a way I
>take this to mean that uptake hasn't been that great (there's not
>_one_ NA mirror even though a very significant % of the world's
>computer users are in Canada/US (& maybe Mexico but I imagine there
>aren't that many there)). Also, the bittorrent was more like a trickle
>(13 MB overnight, 2 users (dial-up I presume)) vs. from one UK Ubuntu
>ftp mirror I got 19 K/sec (pitiful compared to McGill's 200 K/sec for
>YDL (over ADSL)... & 1MB/sec (Montreal to Toronto) on a uni LAN
>connection... perhaps McGill could be convinced to pick up Ubuntu).
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>I have yet to install Ubuntu... I'm backing up my Pismo's HD as we
>speak to the YDL server box (has a cheap 80 GB drive) (backing up 15
>GB over 10 BT is a rather arduous process). Right now 20 GB is
>partitioned 13 GB & 6 GB. I'm going to see if I can simply 'destroy'
>the 6 GB partition and install Ubuntu to that, otherwise I guess I'll
>have to floormat and re-install everything.
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>Eric.
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