[Ubuntu-BD] Potential Analysis: Custom Offline Repo

[Shabab Mustafa]

On Thu, Jul 29, 2010 at 12:39 AM, Lenin <lenin at phpxperts.net> wrote:

> My personal opinion would be not going for a repo.
>
> Rather distribution of custom installable Ubuntu or variant as was the
> attempt in our adda which flawed due to lack of time and QA check. Keeping
> a
> repo would be waste of time and resource(money no doubt) as Sarim already
> mentioned. It would be only helpful for a few.
>

Well, obviously QA check is a issue. But it can be sorted out. Expanding
Money is not an issue. If we could provide CD / DVDs of OS in past without
expending big money, then it can be also distributed by that way, I guess.

As I am lucky enough to have some field experiences of distributing Distro
to people from different places and positions in person, I had a privilege
to talk to them and know their feelings. A significant number of them
complained about internet speed and explained why they could not download
the Distro by themselves. Then all are asking that, is their anyway to get
and install softwares for Ubuntu without internet. And definitely I had to
answer them, 'No' and followed by explaining the constraints about offline
repo.

But continuous request on same topic from different people (who are not
connected to each other) forced me to give a rethink about this matter.

Well, at-least we can give it a try. Personally I am interested to run a
pilot project. All I need is some advices and a volunteer pool for testing