Anyone got the Ubuntu MATE 14.10 amd64 ISO?

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I'm gathering some old ISOs of Ubuntu MATE to preserve a bit of history, but I can't seem to acquire a copy of the amd64 build of the very first 14.10 release!

14.04 actually was the second release while Ubuntu MATE was an unofficial "remix"

Luckily, I managed to salvage 45.3% from an archived amd64 link on the Internet Archive, but it's missing the remaining 54.7%.

If you've still got a copy, please consider adding it to your Bittorrent client and seed it to spread the retro-re-retrospective past. :slight_smile: :crossed_fingers:

:x: 14.10 amd64 - ubuntu-mate-14.10-desktop-amd64.iso.torrent (77.4 KB)
:white_check_mark: 14.10 i386 - ubuntu-mate-14.10-desktop-i386.iso.torrent (78.1 KB)

Thank you to the mysterious torrent user who seeded 14.10 i386! This has been archived at https://releases.ubuntu-mate.org/archived/utopic/i386/

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If you looking to use an older ubuntu mate for older pc's I suggest you use 14.04 instead since it had support until 2019 while ubuntu 14.10 was supported until 2015
I don't know of that many apps that support 14.10 and not 14.04 or 16.04

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I've got 14.04 in my collection - the hunt for 14.10 is to preserve the distro's history.

Despite the release name, 14.04 (2014-11-11) was actually released after 14.10 (2014-10-23) to take advantage of Ubuntu's LTS at the time while it was a newly founded remix flavour.

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Update: We have the 14.10 i386 ISO! Thank you to whoever was seeding this.

We now have a browsable directory listing for old releases of this flavour:

The amd64 build is still incomplete, as well as 15.10 PowerPC build.

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I found it! Currently seeding at the torrent link above, although nobody's downloading.

I found it in LinuxUser Magazine Cover Discs, Volume/Jahrgang 2014 (German) : Computec Media GmbH : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive for interest, so you can download from there if you want (I used "iat" to convert the MDF/MDS into an ISO).

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Also, @lah7, can you put 21.04 into https://releases.ubuntu-mate.org/archived/ ?

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That's amazing - thanks for finding that! I thought we lost it to history.

By the time I opened the torrent, maybe you had gone offline - there were no seeders. I appreciate the tip of where it was on the Internet Archive! :+1:

Got the file, verified its a 1:1 match and we now have a complete historic collection. Hats off to you! :tophat:

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Heh... about 21.04.... I haven't been active around here nor do I use Ubuntu MATE anymore.

I didn't actually have a copy, but thanks to Internet Archive, they had crawled a copy. The SHA256 hash matches what was committed in the website repository, so it's all good!

I've put together a cron script so the server is now going to automatically save copies from https://cdimage.ubuntu.com/ubuntu-mate/releases/

It would be good to know what happens officially on Canonical's servers:

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Thanks @lah7 . Yes, sorry, I rebooted after a couple hours of seeding and forgot to restart! Glad you got it anyway.

21.10 also seems to be hard to find, although it's on https://web.archive.org/web/20211019214459/https://cdimage.ubuntu.com/ubuntu-mate/releases/21.10/release/ubuntu-mate-21.10-desktop-amd64.iso

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