rootninja

In their ongoing campaign to dumb down their Linux distribution for the Windows crowd, Canonical has stripped the md5 checksum data from their download page.

You won’t find it anywhere here:
http://www.ubuntu.com/getubuntu/download

And instead of presenting all of the available downloads in a simple format, they present you with a 1, 2, 3 menu with a bunch of help text and links to more help; none of which let you know where to find the actual checksums.

What you’re really looking for is hidden away here:

http://releases.ubuntu.com/releases/

Example:

a54366aa72d6b576ee8fc0215f8a13b9 *ubuntu-10.04-alternate-amd64.iso
5b2dadacfd692b4f2d5c7cf034539262 *ubuntu-10.04-alternate-i386.iso
3e0f72becd63cad79bf784ac2b34b448 *ubuntu-10.04-desktop-amd64.iso
d044a2a0c8103fc3e5b7e18b0f7de1c8 *ubuntu-10.04-desktop-i386.iso
0b0e0d36050d9980ec995262eb9f2e6b *ubuntu-10.04-netbook-armel+dove.img
9e0d6ac7b69bb7912d49369a6807e39d *ubuntu-10.04-netbook-armel+imx51.img
712277c7868ab374c4d3c73cff1d95cb *ubuntu-10.04-netbook-i386.iso
8ee25c78f4c66610b6872a05ee9ad81b *ubuntu-10.04-server-amd64.iso
15342636441181f7a19c65984b44e24c *ubuntu-10.04-server-i386.iso
e81f931b1de017520f6d4aa4f78c5c8b *wubi.exe

Take the checksums for Lucid Lynx for example. Why do they make it hard to find this information?