Ubuntu DVD (OT)
Carroll Grigsby
cgrigs at earthlink.net
Mon Aug 1 14:29:32 UTC 2005
dipankar das wrote:
> On Monday 01 August 2005 13:31, Dennis Kaarsemaker wrote:
>
>>On ma, 2005-08-01 at 11:58 +0530, Rameshkumar wrote:
>>
>>>Is Ubuntu DVD is aviable for the lastest version ?
>>>
>>>Since I am using the normal internet of 64 KBs at my house, I am not
>>>able to download. Please help in in this regarding.
>>
>>It is only available for download. The shipit people only send out cds,
>>not dvds.
>
>
> This DVD with the whole repository on it is really a must for us. We run a
> local GNU-Linux organization in Calcutta's suburbs in West Bengal, India,
> that happens physically and not the NET way like the other Linux user groups,
> because NET is not there at all for us in a way than make Synaptic happen.
> For a flash, this group consists of around twenty people. Only five of them
> have net connections, all dialups, and hence very costly. Getting ISO-s or
> big chunks of data is more than a dream for us. So, the only way we can go on
> working is the CD or DVD way. It works too. We have made quite a few people
> conscious about the appearently unknown and hidden power of OSS. Linux is
> more necessary for us, a poor nation, for the economy as a whole, but the way
> Linux happened to the First World, that is, through NET, is impossible for
> us. Through the classes and works of our organization, glt (GNU-Linux-Thek)
> already three of our younger members have gone into serious coding. I am not
> a techy guy. I actually teach economics and write, but these young boys, in
> them, i become meaningful. Anyway, that is not the point. I have already made
> this mail long enough and off-topic enough to get rebuked by the list-admin.
> But somehow it relates to the Ubuntu way of seeing things.
>
> If a DVD is available, or, if someone kind enough in the community has the
> resources to copy the whole repository and write it on a DVD and send it to
> us, it can be copied cheaply and easily. And the charge necessary for it we
> can bear. I really liked the Ubuntu distro. It has very successfully avoided
> the intimidating nature of many other distros without compromising the
> stability or flexibility and power. And from the one CD i got we already
> copied it a few times, and on several machines it is running. From the DVD we
> can get a real help.
>
> For GLT-Madhyamgram (www.geocities.com/ddipankardas/)
Perhaps the folks at http://www.linuxbazar.com could help you. Caveat:
_All_ that I know about this company is that they are listed on Fedora's
list of CD vendors (http://fedora.redhat.com/download/vendors.html.
-- cmg
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