Any good mirrors to download the kubuntu dvd?

coolred

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I have tried to download it like 10 times this past week and it keeps timing out, or just stops downloading for no apparent reason.

Or should I just try a different distro for now?
 

drag

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Try bittorrent.

It's what it was originally created for.

http://torrent.ubuntu.com/kubuntu/releases/edgy/release/dvd/

There are a veriaty of torrent clients. It will start off very slow, but after a while it'll pick up. For best performance you'll have to setup port forwarding for your client. Torrent works by uploading as your downloading so bandwidth between clients is maximized, port forwarding makes it easier for people to find you so it goes faster. Also some ISPs block or throttle bittorrent because of excess use by pirates, so you may want to use non-standard ports. Most good clients will have good documentation surrounding that.
 

coolred

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Linky no worky, I am working on getting it from bit torrent, but my freaking internet keeps dropping out. Currently at 70.9% and downloading at 650k give or take, not too bad. But my download says 3.93 GB, why is yours over 4GB?
 

coolred

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should I be using the amd64 version if I have a 64 bit processor? I don't want to have to worry abotu stuff not working due to no drivers
 

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Originally posted by: coolred
should I be using the amd64 version if I have a 64 bit processor? I don't want to have to worry abotu stuff not working due to no drivers

Drivers are not a problem. Most of the issues with 64bit linux deal with video codecs (m$ ones) and browser plugins. Personally life is better without flash,
 

drag

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Codec support is getting better due to the ffmpeg people. Most things are well supported, except anything protected by DRM. VLC has quite usable wmv support, for instance.

Problems are things like embedded flash or other sorts of embedded video in webpages is very ackward in Linux, but that sort of thing is a problem for 32bit also. Just add bad flash support for 64bit linux.

If your using youtube there is a handy script called youtube-dl that you can use to download the Flash Video ( *.flv files ) and you can play them with mplayer or vlc if it's new enough.

For running the odd 32bit program there are 2 ways.. There are usually 32bit compatability libraries that will run most stuff, like games.

Otherwise you can setup a chroot environment with all 32bit software and libraries and use that environment to run 32bit programs. This is the more reliable way. Doing this you can setup a 32bit firefox install and play flash that way.

Keep in mind that I am much more familar with Debian then with Kubuntu, but they are mostly similar as far as this sort of stuff is concerned. This manual has directions on how to setup a schroot enviroment so that it integrates nicely with your existing system:
<a target=_blank class=ftalternatingbarlinklarge href="https://alioth.debian.org/docman/view.php/30192/21/debian-amd64-howto.html#id292205">https://alioth.debian.org/docman/vie......1/debian-amd64-howto.html#id292205</a>


But to be truthfull unless your trying to do something like video editing, or have over 3gigs of RAM, or whatnot then it's probably easier to just run 32bit.

 

coolred

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Well I already got the i386 version downloaded and burnt, is it worth it to get the 64 bit version?