Quickly Get Your Ubuntu 9.10 (Karmic Koala)

Ubuntu 9.10 (Karmic Koala), is scheduled to be released on 29 October 2009. I wrote a small script which you can use to Ubuntu 9.10 (Karmic Koala) when it released , using this script will be also a part of a contribution to Ubuntu as you will use the Ubuntu 9.10 (Karmic Koala) torrent file to download the release so that everybody shares and benefits. It is a good way to download Ubuntu iso releases, especially when the regular release sites are slow, since it actually gets faster when there are lots of users downloading and sharing at once.

You will need wget installed & a torrent client like rtorrent or deluge, below is the script:-

#!/bin/sh

DOWNLOADED="N"
while [ $DOWNLOADED = "N" ]
do
if
wget http://releases.ubuntu.com/karmic/ubuntu-9.10-desktop-i386.iso.torrent
then
DOWNLOADED="Y"
else
DOWNLOADED="N"
sleep 300
fi
done

rtorrent ubuntu-9.10-desktop-i386.iso.torrent

You just need to run this script from now or at anytime then when the torrent file got released your torrent client will start downloading the release of Ubuntu 9.10 (Karmic Koala).