Uploaded Copland

I found a free file transfer site that lets me send a 500 megabyte file to be hosted forever and ever. So I did it. It took 12 hours, but it has succeeded.

http://www.mooload.com/new/file.php?file=/data/200507/1179674629/copland-cp.iso

Although nobody else has used the distro yet (the invitations to download have only just gone out), I've had some good feedback:

1. Cheers! Thanks for the great job. Unfortunately I can't test it because i'm very short in bandwidth but hopefully this project can go on

2. Hey thanks! I'll test it on my Powerbook G4 (Ti). Looks like a great distro

3. Congrats and thanks! Monday is a holiday in Canada so I won't get to try this out until Tuesday (left my iBook at work!). I'm excited and can't wait to read the first reports on how this distribution works. I think it has a very bright future.

Another potential user was asking about screenshots. As stupid as it sounds, I actually don't have any! (I used to, but lost them). If you've got screenshots, please send them to me: chris (my name) _*at*_ ubuntu PLEASEDON'TSPAMME os.com.

I'll get some screenshots tomorrow night, I hope.

In other news, today while my file was uploading, I went into the city. First I went to Harbour Town, where I looked around for a cap to match my nice new clothes; I did find one that sorta matched, but it took a while. The Brooks store came through for me.

And I also went to the city city and found the new Borders bookshop. Man, that place is huge. Not only are there books, but also magazines, DVDs, and CDs. Most bookshops have a rack or two of computer books - this place had 6 full-height racks full of them. Quite a good Linux section, with a book about Ubuntu, but it was child's play stuff. I did actually buy Revolution In The Valley, which is the book containing stories about the development of the Macintosh computer. You can read those stories at www.folklore.org; some are quite funny, and they provide a lot of insight into the developers.

I'm glad I bought the book. The website is good, but there are a couple of things that the book has (alternate points of view) and lots of photos; as well as it looking like a coffee-table book. It wasn't cheap - $50 - but it's given me new perspective on Linux, so much so that I'm now starting to think that Syllable really is the way forward for GPL personal computers.