Ubuntu launch marred by website woes

Ubuntu's website has been flaking out on and off throughout today as its users attempt to download the latest free, open source desktop, laptop, client, and server Linux distribution. Version 7.04 was supposed to be available for download from the Ubuntu website today. However, users would have been hardpressed to actually …

[Karl Lattimer]

Its a popular distro...

Ubuntu are of course aware of the problems, its simply a load matter. There servers can't handle it, unfortunately its stopping people from getting the amazing new OS in all its glory (i tried it, it's grrrrrreat)

There is now a mirror list up at the main site as they've shifted things around by the look of things to try and cool off the release.

Fiesty is available here http://www.ubuntu.com/ (USE A MIRROR)

Or get the bittorrent http://www.bittorrent.com/users/zizazat/torrents/Ubuntu_7.04__Feisty_Fawn__Beta/6e15fbbaa0fc1024886c37da68010f7f930663bc

and update it to using the builtin package updater.

[Alastair McKinstry]

Lesson: don't add a graphical tour of new features

The advert mail for ubuntu 7.04 has a pointer to a graphical tour

of new features on 7.04. Suspected load issue?

The website is now failing over to www-static.ubuntu.com,

which doesn't include 7.04 release notes or the graphical tour.

[Andrew Herron]

Its back now...

Well as of 4pm they seem to have managed to get the site back again... hope the outage was not due to them upgrading there servers to 7.04 ;-)

[Kevin Hall]

Heh

I thought the invincible world of Linux didn't have these kind of outages. I mean in the Linux fantasy world you don't have these problems, do you? Have you got your excuses ready yet?

[Anonymous Coward]

Follow the sun....

...when it's supposed to be 'tomorrow' - tomorrow came early to Asia - downloading a treat from an 'eastern asian' mirror.

(S'pose that's what Dubya means when he says "..the US . (oh, yep - nearly forgot) and the rest of the world")

-Andy

[Alex Taylor]

Heh?

What a stupid thing to say. Not even the most ardent Linux fan is going to say that it's immune to server overload - especially because this is more of a hardware and bandwidth issue than it is to do with the operating system it's being served from.

[Col]

Non-starter for ten

It's still knackered. I've been trying to download it for half an hour now and all I get for my troubles is 503. Ho hum...

[Anonymous Coward]

What problem???

Logged on to Ubuntu.com no problem and downloaded the ISO in less than an hour!!

[Steven Walker]

Use bittorrent

It took me a couple of hours this afternoon. This is the obvious way to get any new *nix distro.

[Anonymous Coward]

Wireless support, eh?

"The latest desktop addition had been touted by Ubuntu as having new features which include wireless networking support..."

Wireless networking support! I'm gonna party like it's 1999!

[Chris Neale]

Wifi if you're lucky

Despite listing the Ralink cards as on the compatibly lists, they don't work fine with the wifi network manager if you want to use WPA.

[Tom]

Beta

People should have downloaded the beta a couple of days ago like I did. (although I'm posting this from my windows box :o)

And just for the record, sod the new VM capabilities, shove your improved wireless support, it's got those wobbly windows... built in and only a checkbox away!

[Shannon Jacobs]

Duh? Why isn't BitTorrent the default?

Strikes me as kind of ridiculous that they aren't using BitTorrent as the default for large-scale distribution. This kind of peak traffic scenario is exactly where it works best.

[Anonymous Coward]

OK this morning

I grabbed the full "alternative" install (696MB) from canonical this morning - only took about 55 minutes.

So either they've fixed their problems or everyone has given up

[Anonymous Coward]

Wireless support?

So how was I using Wireless on Edgy?

Oh yeah, it's maxing out this broadband connection downloading from a mirror.

[UnixAnt]

Re: Duh? Why isn't BitTorrent the default?

Amen to that!

As for the wireless issues, both Ubuntu and the Ubuntu-based Linux Mint have worked perfectly with Ralink, Netgear and USR cards, although WPA functionality has been flaky on both distros.

Will be interesting to see how wireless performs out of the box with the latest version...

[Rose]

Impressive demand

Even some of the mirrors were struggling a bit yesterday. Fortunately I decided to upgrade to Feisty 3 days beforehand, so no problems here.

I've been using Ubuntu for about a month and I've got to admit I like it. It installs out of the box, even on older machines; I've had no more problems with drivers than with Windows; there are tons of apps and utilities available at the click of a mouse... and best of all, it's rock stable. No apps suddenly going belly-up after Patch Tuesday, something that's become tiresomely frequent on my other machines.

[Dillon Pyron]

Orinoco?

Does anyone know if they support Orinoco (Gold)? I've got an older Sony Vaio that's about to be retired and it has one. I've got no problem with buying a new card, but I just love going into a "cyber cafe" and firing up my b card and just watching the network slow to a crawl. :-)