Comments on: Ubuntu 7.10 Beta

By: anonymous_chicken_coward

anonymous_chicken_coward — Sun, 29 Jun 2008 08:26:45 +0000

Whoa. It requires a download of 1367 Megs…………. wtf is that a porn movie?
/var/cache/apt/archives/ holds all the completed and temp/partially downloaded.
bollocks it doesnt resume.
RTFM man, you need too much RTFM. plus before any update/upgrade/dist-upgrade/dselect-upgrade? do you bother to run apt-get clean && apt-get autoclean && apt-get autoremove
i am playing around with SID not just lenny, lenny is the one to be frozen (next release after etch), play with SID
/me pings sushubh hping3 -c 20000000 susubh’s localhost

By: Sushubh

Sushubh — Sat, 29 Sep 2007 13:11:25 +0000

well i did try resuming it. but after the reboot when i tried the update process. in fact any kind of installation process. the system would become unstable and would hang in between…

so i decided to install it from the alternate CD which messed up grub. but all seems to be fine now.

By: General Maximus

General Maximus — Sat, 29 Sep 2007 12:12:48 +0000

Erm, in fact the update *does* resume, but it cannot handle partial files. So, if you have download 10 packages (100%) and are in the middle of downloading the 11th one when your connection goes down, you will still have the previous 10 packages when you resume. The packages are stored in /var/cache/apt/archives. You can even make a backup from there, or save some disk space by deleting old DEBs.

BTW, Debian is working on a backend to APT that will allow you to use BitTorrent. Since BitTorrent inherently requires that partial files be supported, it’s likely that APT will come to support it too.

By: Vishal Rao

Vishal Rao — Fri, 28 Sep 2007 01:51:10 +0000

Ubuntu 7.10 is going to be really good: http://tech.tolero.org/blog/en/linux/review-ubuntu-710-gutsy-features-changes

By: Sushubh

Sushubh — Thu, 27 Sep 2007 23:40:11 +0000

heh. i had to hard reboot the machine in the middle and now i have a messed up installation. it’s working but i cant access the update manager at all.

currently downloading a regular ISO to install over my current installation. would have to restart from scratch i guess.

By: Vishal Rao

Vishal Rao — Thu, 27 Sep 2007 23:26:46 +0000

ya, thats a problem with these linux distros, they dont make a reliable download system with resume etc for third-rate broadband connections like we have

many times while getting updates some of the files error out and i have to restart the update…

compare that to windows-update which is very reliable (resumes etc) and it also works in the background if you have some other downloads going on, plus it continues even if you reboot in between etc…