Ferenc Szekely of Maemo.org just sent out an email to the maemo-develpoers mailing list explaining why most of us experienced numerous problems downloading the OS2008 update, as well as the repository problems from our Internet Tablets:

The infrastructure is built so that the content from repository.maemo.org is served thru a huge caching network. We were supposed to use the same network for the firmware downloads as well, but due to a misconfiguration and _my negligence_ all the requests ended up at our origin server (stage.maemo.org).

Ferenc also thanks everyone who seeded the OS2008 updates via torrent.

I would like to take this opportunity too to thank all the members who took time to help other members by hosting the updates, writing how-to’s, and for tirelessly replying to other members to help with their Internet Tablet problems. That says a lot about our community!

Read the full email.