The e-book will be hosted on MediaFire in the future as I gear up for the official launch of Ubuntu Apps. Currently it is being hosted on a dedicated server but the download speed on the dedicated server is only about 1MB/s upload so it won’t take many people downloading it before it slows to a crawl.

The PDF file is now nearly 15MB. After spending a day trying to compress it using the various image compression formats,  then trying compressing it via .zip, .7z  and other compression methods, it became apparent that this was not the best option because the image quality started going downhill each time the compression went up.

The other option is to release it as a torrent which I’m a bit hesitant to do because it will most likely get out of my hands where I have little control over it. The result of this may be that people avoid the website entirely, or a stale version of Ubuntu Apps floating around on the torrents.

MediaFire has received some good reviews and I hope it works out well. I’m also putting the sources.list files on MediaFire.

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Posted June 20th, 2009
Topic: Book Blog.
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