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andyking on Oct 3, 2008 | parent | context | favorite | on: Ubuntu 8.10 Beta released

I'm not. In fact, whenever a new Ubuntu version comes out, I always order the CD from the "ship it" service.

The benefits are twofold; I'm not maxing out my meagre internet connection for hour after hour downloading a huge ISO and the 4-5 week delay before the CD arrives gives early adopters time to find teething problems, gives the Ubuntu team time to fix them as well as giving developers of things such as VirtualBox time to catch up and release new packages for the new release.

eru on Oct 3, 2008 [–]

I had some problems with the shipped CD for 8.04 installing on a friends computer. The alternate CD worked though.

Honestly I just want to see if there are any new games in 8.10.

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