The new version of Ubuntu Linux looks like it’ll be relatively popular if the slow downloads today were any indication. Download by BitTorrent — quite legal — is your best and fastest best, or to wait a few days if you can.
Here for the torrent list; most people will want gutsy-desktop-i386.iso
But perhaps you wonder what’s the fuss. See this article at Wired. [Link fixed]
I think your wired link is bad.
Oops — it was a dupe of the torrent list. Fixed.
I used uTorrent to download it and the whole thing came in a bit more than four hours.
Was that the standard disc or the DVD?
It’s ubuntu-7.10-desktop-i386.iso