Congratulations with this new release and happy to join this announcement from the (community) arm side of 7.8.2003.
Arm32 bit is not far behind and the release candidate images are available today. There is good hope to move to final swiftly this time with arm32-bit because the main headache issue, failing network on rpi4, is solved.
The images can be downloaded from the releases at the arm-dev github repository where you find instructions to get your arm-board up and running.
Just downloaded the iso form SourceForge, it took 4 hours…
IIRC @robb has mentioned somewhere something about add-blokkers, which I (temporally) disabled…
Tried Firefox, Chromium and MS-Edge,
Any clue’s why this happens, do not have super fast internet but even centos-8 (almost 8G) took aprox 4 minutes…
sourceforge is probably the worst download provider, even free. This is not a good way to introduce us, when the first contact is a 3 or 4 hours to download an ISO. Certainly some people could give up
What are some of the possible “solutions” or additions to make it better?
Download page detecting browser location and nearest mirror for direct downloads?
Add more mirrors, torrent seeds, or other download service sources?
I still don’t see any updates for 7.8 on any of my systems, neither in Dashboard nor in Cockpit…
I thought they were supposed to show up from yesterday?
I agree with @pike, I had a fast download when I’ve tried.
I agree also with this.
We will look to some of the alternatives pointed by @dnutan.
Please be patient, we have been blocked by … marketing team
There are already dozens of 7.8 around, but we couldn’t release the update packages because announcements are not ready yet
I invite you all to update in the meanwhile using the following command:
So the first change we can do today is pointing the main download link to the .torrent file (with some instructions for every platform) and leave SF as second choice.
IMO this is really a terrible idea. The main link should be the simplest one to grab: HTTP.
No, we need also a way to easily count downloads.
Please do not search for too quick and easy solutions!
We are stick to sourceforge because it has multiple world-wide mirrors, is easy to use, and has download statistics.
I agree to move away, but for sure not now and not without a good plan.
or two
yes! Every Nethserverian should contribute to the distribution of the new ISO!