12.04 released, torrents, server bandwidth, graphs and my uber geeky game!

Posted by ikt on April 28, 2012
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So 12.04 was released and I have at my disposal your typical seedbox, and being the bored geek I was I wanted to see just how fast I could upload and how much I could.

Turns out the seedbox max upload speed is 11MB/s which appears to have only lasted 2-3 hours before dying down.

This is how much I had uploaded for Ubuntu 11.10 and elementary OS over the course of the previous 2 months:

At this current moment I have uploaded 137GB of Ubuntu 12.04 AMD64 in 4 days vs Ubuntu 11.10 and ElementaryOS combined with 101GB over the previous 2 months.

In terms of raw speed:

Which continued for around 3 hours before dying down:

 

You can see the previous days efforts and it’s not as if I’ve only got 1-2 torrents on there, there’s 130 torrents in total, quite a few distro’s being seeded and it’s nothing compared to what happened on release day, I can only imagine the type of bandwidth ubuntu.com must have been pumping out when it wasn’t down :P

I plan on seeding these for the next 5 years, and I’m slowly adding Xubuntu and Lubuntu on there as well :D

All in all was good fun, oh and ubuntu 12.04 is going quite swell :)

Exactly the opposite of what linux is about.

Posted by ikt on April 11, 2012
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This is exactly the opposite of what linux is about, linux is fork or die! take someones software and make it better, make it worse, do what you want with it! Open Source baby!

Several points:

1) Gnome 3.4 is not on par with Mac OS X, this can be refuted by simply asking any apple fan.

2) You’re not trying to troll, but you then make several absurd points with highly emotional language, we call that trolling in my part of the world.

3) Fragmenting the linux userbase? This is hilarious given how fragmented linux is by nature, this is a good thing, choice is a good thing, but if we look at the desktop environment situation before Unity there was KDE, Gnome, XFCE, LXDE, Fluxbox, and that’s not including command line based window managers like awesome and icewm.

4) He claims the ‘linux brand’ has been tarnished by Unity, maybe he forgot that linux has no brand on the desktop, it’s a 1% market share failure.

5) He claims Ubuntu is getting slower and more useless every day, here’s a quick solution, try ubuntu 12.04…

6) I dare you to find one designer who thinks Gnome 3.4 is on par with Mac OS X :hah:

7) You don’t have a billion dollars

In other news, hardcore linux users discover there are other distro’s besides ubuntu that have horrible desktop environments.