Ubuntu 18.04 Official Download Page
Joelle Ridgeway
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Adapted for hardy release. Removed the obsolete powerpc data for hardy. I'm currently evaluation if and how I shouldinclude information about ports.ubuntu.com packages here. Since archive.ubuntu.com is currently unusableI use nl.archive.ubuntu.com as source for the data until the situation normalizes again.
The downtime today was caused by some yet undiagnosed kernel troubles aftera faulty hard disk was exchanged. Sorry for any inconvenience.2008-02-19Switched packages.ubuntu.com to the newer codebase that also runson packages.debian.org. The two most important changes for usersare that most pages are now generated dynamically (which makesfor faster updates and more flexibility) and that the searchfunctions should be much faster now.Still waiting for a volunteer that optimizes the used stylesheets,I myself have not much talent in this area...2007-10-21Add hardy.2007-10-18Change default release to gutsy.2007-07-28Drop old releases since they also got dropped from archive.ubuntu.com.2007-04-29Feisty is released. Pages updated accordingly.2006-11-20
- The hard drive of the server was replaced today after it began to actup. Most stuff should be up and running again. I accidentally deleted theinfo about new packages though, so that will be not reliable for the nextfew days.
- Added edgy-backports to the homepage and the search forms
- Add feisty. The changes for the edgy release were already done some days ago.
- The "Bug reports" links now correctly point to Launchpad for all packages.Thanks to all the people that reported this error to me.
- I added an robots.txt to ban some people trying tomirror the site by means of wget -r. If forever reasonyou need to mirror the site please contact me by mail so we can dothis by other means that won't stress the server as much.
- While looking at the log statistics I noticed that apparentlypackages.ubuntulinux.org also points to my serverwithout me knowing. I fixed the apache configuration so that it nowknows about that and handles it correctly.
- Linking to a CSS file on the official Ubuntu homepagewas a bad idea and the page had some glitches when it disappeared.Most of the issues should be fixed by now.
- Sorry for any performance issues with the site. My little serveris not always able to handle the many hits of this site (close to2,000,000 per month). I guess I will have to search for anotherhosting solution in the near future.
- The contents files are updated again, so I removed any warningsand added the appropriate links back
- The "Check for bug reports" links now point to Launchpad foruniverse/multiverse packages. Suggested byj -at- bootlab -dot- org.
- Finally, I migrated to the "new" layout. Comments and Patchesabout the remaining quirks welcome.
- I've added a warning to this site about the outdated Contentsfiles in the Ubuntu archive which make the contents search completelyuseless for anything after warty. I've actually no idea whom to askabout this since I don't seem to be able to find out on the Ubuntuweb site who is ftp-master in Ubuntu?
- You can now also browse the packages fromhoary-backports
- On request of the MOTUs I've added links to the build logs forhoary packages.
- Also, the Portuguese LoCoTeam (hmm, Ubuntu teams haveall very l33t names ;) asked mehow to translate the pages. Here my answer:At =debian.deyou can find some .pot files. Please translate them and send them backto me (You may want to take a look at the translations available at =webwmlespecially for files like langs.pot). This will ensure that at leastthe constant strings on all the pages are translated (Some of thestrings in these file are only needed on packages.debian.org)
This seems pretty tedious, and I am wondering how realistic it is that there is a problem with ISO downloaded from the official website. I note that the process of verification itself requires me to download software that is new to me, thus introducing another attack vector on me even as I am closing another one.
When you're downloading over TCP which checksums all transmitted data, there's very little chance of having a corrupt download with exactly the same size. If you're confident you're downloading from the official site (you normally are if you're using HTTPS and the certificate check passes), verifying that your download is complete is normally enough. Decent web browsers usually do the check for you anyway, saying something along the lines of "download failed" if they don't get the amount of data they expect, though I have seen browsers which just decide to keep the incomplete file without saying anything to the user, in which case you could check the file size manually.
There are generally at least one bug report filed per day (on launchpad; I monitor via #ubuntu-bugs-announce), reported by users who've been having problems with they consider a bug that would have been prevented by these checks. The bug reports are just marked INVALID and given a quick paste with a couple of lines from their dmesg output). So I see on a very regular basis users wasting hours trying to repeat processes that will never work (often over days), because they skipped these checks and thus are starting with corrupted media where problems should be expected.
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