[ubuntu-uk] Contents of ubuntu-uk digest...

[alan c]

Matthew Wild wrote:
> On 7/25/07, spep at kaygroth.plus.com <spep at kaygroth.plus.com> wrote:
>>
>> The 'Repo on external drives' idea is superb, i often want to install
>> things at work, which is a secure network and hence we cant have internet
>> access to not secured machines, would also be better for big sites IE
>> schools/businesses who dont want to have their proxys loaded with small
>> .debs (think WSUS). Does anybody know the kind of sizes the repos are?
> 
> 
> About 30GB, or so I was told...
> 
> As
>> to price, buying from and normal retail outlet will be expensive, somebody
>> must have a trade account at a cash'n'carry somewhere?
>>
>> Steven Pepperell
>>
> 
> 
> I know someone who lives in another country with only dial-up access to the
> internet. While it is of course possible for him to order a CD from shipit,
> Ubuntu is still only supplied with a basic set of applications.
> 
> Instead I am sending him a CD by post, along with a custom DVD of packages.
> I wrote a small script to parse the Ubuntu popcon results, and select the
> top N packages that fit into a specified capacity. I then passed these to
> 'aptitude download' which will grab the debs, which can then be used by
> AptOnCD. This way I managed to build myself a DVD containing pretty much
> most of the commonly installed packages.
> 
> I even made a copy for myself, for when I take my laptop on the road... it's
> really handy :D Of course the obvious benefit of a HDD is greater capacity,
> and you can update it whenever necessary. Still, I just wanted to share my
> story :)

nice one Matthew
The DVD idea could be continued on a basis of the most popular or 
whatever, and be available as an active choice download perhaps?
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