Feisty Fawn released today

[Ol'Tunzafun]

Ubuntu Feisty Fawn was released today. Distribution Servers are being hammered.
http://linux.slashdot.org/linux/07/04/19/1331231.shtml

[rraehal]

I ordered CD's for this. No where good to download this for me.

[Sterling_Aug]

Every site I tried just sat there without the download starting.

Maybe this weekend it will be better.

[Ol'Tunzafun]

Using the dTa (https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/201) Firefox extension, it seems I can get instant connection and full flow down a 3 megabit pipe on any of those links.
I couldn't find a checksum for the i386 desktop iso, so had to download it twice from different servers so I could compare checksums.
Both files were the same:

MD5
E296E3468358789904097FC8DF29609A

or

SHA1
6F6A0A9FF65285A8D9C707A8BB54E7B2438BF772

Now that I have a hash number, I was able to google the MD5 number and got confirmation.
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Testing/md5sums

[bushmaster]

torrent dudes.

[Sterling_Aug]

The dTa extension worked for me.

I got my copy of Fiesty now.

[bonz_dragon]

Tried a D/L tonight and it didn't work. Got a 317meg file?

[porsch1909]

The file I'm downloading just now is about 700MB

[Sterling_Aug]

The file size is 699MB. Try downloading it again using Firefox with the dTa extension.

[Ol'Tunzafun]

Download an MD5 hash value calculator (http://www.karenware.com/powertools/pthasher.asp) and run it on the downloaded file. If the value is
E296E3468358789904097FC8DF29609A
then the file is OK.

[Sterling_Aug]

I have never, ever worried about the MD5 hash on any download I did for the past 25 years. Why do you think it is important? I just run the files and they work fine.

[richard_cocks]

It's not a "worry", md5sums aren't terribly secure since they're often distributed from the same source, so if you were worried from a security standpoint (such as a fake mirror distributing a kernel with a backdoor for example) then the md5 doesn't prove much.

However, it's a quick way to determine if your download worked right, often, especially with ISOs, it can be deceiving, it'll look like it downloaded fine then halfway through installing some file won't copy properly or it'll even install fine then some application won't run because the files were actually corrupted when you downloaded them in the first place.

This has happened to me (not often but once or twice downloading slackware ISOs) and md5 is a quick way to verify your download worked properly before wasting a CD on it. (wasting CDs is more of a bother because of the time to burn and then boot from them before realising they're messed up rather than the cost implications).

If you want security then verifying it against the public PGP key is a good way of verifying the download to be both accurate and official.

[bonz_dragon]

Just deleted the 1st file and am trying again. Also signed up to have a copy sent to me yesterday but still haven't recieved an email from them for a new account.

[porsch1909]

My download is finished *bites nails*

Will install it tonight so stay near your computer richard_cocks.

I will take Friday off from studying for finals :D

[bushmaster]

Impressive...Downloaded using Utorrent and took about 5 minutes. Installed on spare T43 I had lying around and all drivers loaded on install with exception of biometrics....will have to start playing with linux again guys. Quick boot up and quick shut down.

[bonz_dragon]

D/L'ed it this afternoon using a mirror site and took about 11 min. Burned it @ 8x and took almost 20min. But got a nice clean burn, no errors I can see.

This looks so nice and easy I'm taking this over to my brothers tomorrow to see what he thinks and possibly finally get him out of Win98SE! All he does anyways is surf, emails and use it for bill paying, doesn't even burn CD's. So this should work great for him.

For this kind of useage who really needs Vista? Not me.

Also going to try this on an old Compaq Presario that uses a Celeron 566 and PC100 memory with OB sound and video to see how it works and when I'm done with that I'll try the wireless D-Link card in it to see if the wireless works as good as I've heard it does.