Ubuntu “Breezy Badger” (5.10) is out

14 Oct 2005

At this stage, if you’ve got broadband, you’d be mad trying to apt to the latest version with the core servers. I was getting maybe 14KB/second max speed from there.

Use a mirror — I’m getting about half a MB/second from mirror.isp.net.au by FTP.

Alternatively, waiting 48 hours would probably do a lot to make the experience less painful, but my theory is I don’t need to think about it whilst it’s downloading, and I have to do it at some point anyway, and they’re going to use the upstream bandwidth at some point regardless.

Interestingly, this release features OpenOffice 2.0 beta 2. The full version release was scheduled for today, but it’s now anticipated to come out sometime next week. I can understand Ubuntu/Canonical’s wish to get it in, though, seeing as they don’t change the CD images after a release goes ahead, and from all reports even OO.org 2.0 beta is a million times better than 1.0.x. Thank goodness.

Looking forward to having a play with this once it’s done downloading. Because of the weird way Synaptic’s sources.list manager works, I’m now stuck downloading some packages from archive.ubuntu.com. Next time I’ll go the command-line route. Bleh, I’ll check back in a few hours.

Or not. I got sick of waiting so I manually changed all the slow sources and started again. Estimated time just went down from 12 hours to 30 minutes, ooohhh yeah!