Ubuntu-eg Digest, Vol 26, Issue 12

Iislam Al-Wazery al.wazery at gmail.com
Wed May 5 21:58:15 UTC 2010


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>   1. Freedom Toaster (Hisham Kotry)
>   2. Re: Network & Mirror Issue (Mohamed Saudi)
>   3. Re: Freedom Toaster (Mohamed Saudi)
>   4. Re: Freedom Toaster (Jonathan N. Hindi)
>   5. Re: Freedom Toaster (Ahmed Toulan)
>   6. our work progress (mahmoud mohamed)
>   7. Re: our work progress (Mohamed Saudi)
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> Message: 1
> Date: Wed, 5 May 2010 16:34:40 +0300
> From: Hisham Kotry <hkotry at live.com>
> Subject: Freedom Toaster
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> As part of the group's efforts to promote Ubuntu I'd like to propose
> building a Freedom Toaster and placing it somewhere convenient on a college
> campus. It doesn't have to be anything fancy, just an old PC with an optical
> media writer in it. The idea came to me when I learnt that Mohammed
> "Sensiva" Saudi was remastering an Ubuntu CD -one that ought to provide an
> out of the box experience on-par with what MS Windows users are used to- for
> distribution at an upcoming event because new users might not have the
> necessary know-how or bandwidth to do it themselves. We could all chip-in to
> buy the necessary hardware and I think that it's much cheaper on the
> long-run than producing dozens of CDs/DVDs for every event.
> You can find out more about Freedom Toasters at:
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freedom_Toaster .
> Any takers?
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> Date: Wed, 5 May 2010 17:10:47 +0300
> From: "Mohamed Saudi" <Mohamed_Saudi at Hotmail.com>
> Subject: Re: Network & Mirror Issue
> To: "Ubuntu Egypt" <ubuntu-eg at lists.ubuntu.com>
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> The mirror will be on my computer, I will setup ftp server and also share
> the mirror folder on samba. Installers have to do the following
>
> - add those lines in source.list (at the top)
> deb ftp://192.168.1.230/ lucid main multiverse restricted universe
> deb ftp://192.168.1.230/ lucid-updates main multiverse restricted universe
> deb ftp://192.168.1.230/ lucid-security main multiverse restricted
> universe
>
> or ...
>
> mount the samba share to a local mount point. then add the following lines
> in source.list (at the top)
> deb file:/path/to/mnt/point  lucid main multiverse restricted universe
> deb file:/path/to/mnt/point  lucid-updates main multiverse restricted
> universe
> deb file:/path/to/mnt/point  lucid-security main multiverse restricted
> universe
>
> then update apt, and start installing whatever you want. after finishing
> installing, please remove those lines from sources.list then update apt
>
> Those steps are valid for both 32bit and 64bit installations
>
> If anyone can provide an empty 100GB IDE harddrive, I can make this even
> easier
>
> Thank you
> Mohamed Saudi
>
>
> From: Ahmed Toulan
> Sent: Wednesday, May 05, 2010 1:34 PM
> To: Ubuntu Egypt
> Subject: Re: Network & Mirror Issue
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>
> Mohammed Saudi, since you're the one responsible for the mirror can u
> please answer this question ..
>
>
> On Wed, May 5, 2010 at 1:25 AM, Omar Mohamed <omarmohsenm at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>  I need to know how the network infrastructure will be, although the
>  fact that it will be small. I personally believe that we will really
>  need the mirror, but we haven't talked about how it will be configured
>  in terms of network view, if we can host a BIND server in order for
>  the hosts to resolve default mirrors domain names to our mirror IP
>  address, I don't know much about BIND, I am not sure if it would take
>  time in order to configure, it will be easier in order to install
>  packages, especially if there are many people and many packages being
>  installed.
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> Message: 3
> Date: Wed, 5 May 2010 17:13:04 +0300
> From: "Mohamed Saudi" <Mohamed_Saudi at Hotmail.com>
> Subject: Re: Freedom Toaster
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> I really like the idea, bas enta 3aref sa3b awi e7na el masreyeen ne7afez
> 3ala 7aga public zay di, someone has to be watching for it. Join us next
> Saturday wenzabbat'ha sawa
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> From: Hisham Kotry
> Sent: Wednesday, May 05, 2010 4:34 PM
> To: ubuntu-eg at lists.ubuntu.com
> Subject: Freedom Toaster
>
>
> As part of the group's efforts to promote Ubuntu I'd like to propose
> building a Freedom Toaster and placing it somewhere convenient on a college
> campus. It doesn't have to be anything fancy, just an old PC with an optical
> media writer in it. The idea came to me when I learnt that Mohammed
> "Sensiva" Saudi was remastering an Ubuntu CD -one that ought to provide an
> out of the box experience on-par with what MS Windows users are used to- for
> distribution at an upcoming event because new users might not have the
> necessary know-how or bandwidth to do it themselves. We could all chip-in to
> buy the necessary hardware and I think that it's much cheaper on the
> long-run than producing dozens of CDs/DVDs for every event.
>
>
> You can find out more about Freedom Toasters at:
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freedom_Toaster .
>
>
> Any takers?
>
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> Message: 4
> Date: Wed, 5 May 2010 17:32:53 +0300
> From: "Jonathan N. Hindi" <jonathan.hindi at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: Freedom Toaster
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> Nice Idea
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> Message: 5
> Date: Wed, 5 May 2010 17:48:03 +0300
> From: Ahmed Toulan <thelinuxer at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: Freedom Toaster
> To: Ubuntu Egypt <ubuntu-eg at lists.ubuntu.com>
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> I like the idea too but we have to think of the best way to implement it as
> Mohammed Saudi said.
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> On Wed, May 5, 2010 at 5:32 PM, Jonathan N. Hindi
> <jonathan.hindi at gmail.com>wrote:
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> > Nice Idea
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> Message: 6
> Date: Wed, 5 May 2010 19:46:44 +0300
> From: mahmoud mohamed <eng.ma7moud.ebrahem at gmail.com>
> Subject: our work progress
> To: Ubuntu Egypt <ubuntu-eg at lists.ubuntu.com>
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> AA,
> how is the work going on :).
> i wanna tell u that i began in burning the CDs after i downloaded the
> customized CD from the torrent.
> also today we manged to announce about the event in m.fawzy and my
> department.
> and the first poster to us have been putted in the announcement wall :).
> .
> plz every one achieve any thing of our work, write it here to us to be
> updated by the last news.
> like the name tags, CDs and so one.
>                                                                      thnx
> in advance.
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> Message: 7
> Date: Wed, 5 May 2010 20:33:55 +0300
> From: "Mohamed Saudi" <Mohamed_Saudi at Hotmail.com>
> Subject: Re: our work progress
> To: "Ubuntu Egypt" <ubuntu-eg at lists.ubuntu.com>
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> Burning in progress, we need to burn more because some members aren't able
> to burn.
>
> I am waiting for the name tags to be sent so I can get them printed
>
> The paper has been done by Mohamed Gamal, I will print them tomorrow.
>
>
>
>
> From: mahmoud mohamed
> Sent: Wednesday, May 05, 2010 7:46 PM
> To: Ubuntu Egypt
> Subject: our work progress
>
>
> AA,
> how is the work going on :).
> i wanna tell u that i began in burning the CDs after i downloaded the
> customized CD from the torrent.
> also today we manged to announce about the event in m.fawzy and my
> department.
> and the first poster to us have been putted in the announcement wall :).
> .
> plz every one achieve any thing of our work, write it here to us to be
> updated by the last news.
> like the name tags, CDs and so one.
>                                                                      thnx
> in advance.
>
>
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