Life and Linux (was: Re: [UbuntuWomen] Introduction)

[Ndapewa Hangula]

Hi Evelyn (and everyone else)

Below is a response from Charles, he's a Ubuntu developer and i forwarded him your query.

Charles Majola <charles at ubuntu.com> wrote: Date: Thu, 16 Mar 2006 11:02:48 +0200
From: Charles Majola <charles at ubuntu.com>
To: Ndapewa Hangula <hangulanv at yahoo.com>
Subject: Re: Fwd: Re: Life and Linux (was: Re: [UbuntuWomen] Introduction)

 Unfortunately there is no one you can speak to, Ubuntu/Canonical doesn't 
provide a solution to that. An idea would be to ask someone who has a 
connection to mirror the ubuntu archive and burn it on dvd's for you and 
then you can install it on a local server and install software from it 
instead of the repositories. As for security updates you will need to 
periodically download them.

--
chmj


Ndapewa Hangula wrote:
> Hi, please read through this email and let me know OK.
> 
> Clytie Siddall  wrote: From: Clytie Siddall 
> Subject: Re: Life and Linux (was: Re: [UbuntuWomen] Introduction)
> Date: Thu, 16 Mar 2006 16:31:22 +1030
> To: ubuntu-women at lists.ubuntu.com
> 
>  Evelyn has given me permission to post this on the list. She thought  
> she was posting to the list anyway. ;)  I do that, too! :D
> 
> On 14/03/2006, at 1:14 PM, Clytie Siddall wrote:
>> On 13/03/2006, at 10:21 PM, Evelyn Namara wrote:
>>
>>> Hi thanx for the warm welcome,
>> My pleasure. :)  I'm very happy to meet you.
>>> No, the percentage of people using OSS and linux is still very low  
>>> in Uganda,
>>> we are trying hard as Linux Solutions to try migrate
>>> most of our clients from proprietary to open source but there
>>> is still some resistance.
>> Yes, dirty financial deals done in the background. :(
>>> yes, i wld like to help in any way i can, i have got
>>> challenges, first, i installed nagios on a machine running suse 9.3,
>>>
>>> i succeeded in doing that, but i need help setting it up to  
>>> monitor my
>>> network.
>> It's a big task. Please ask questions on the list: there are people  
>> there who could help you at all points in your process. :)
>>> Ubuntu is also tricky for me in a place where there is no internet,
>>> i have a machine running ubuntu at home but i find it hard
>>> getting some of the packages since everything is supposed to be  
>>> downloaded
>>> from the repositories.
>>>
>>> otherwise, we shall interruct much more.
>> That's an important point to make on the list, and for us to carry  
>> to the main projects. They need to hear from people who do _not_  
>> have Net access, or don't have reliable or frequent net access.  
>> Otherwise, they assume everyone can get things from the Net.
>>
>> Do you mind if I copy your comments to the list? That way, we can  
>> all work on this together. (I'll wait for your decision. I wouldn't  
>> publicize anything you said unless it were OK with you.)
> 
> So, at Ubuntu, for example, whom do we talk to about making sure  
> packages are available to people who don't have Net access, or who  
> have it very sporadically and not for downloading files?
> 
> from Clytie (vi-VN, Vietnamese free-software translation team / nhóm  
> Việt hóa phần mềm tự do)
> http://groups-beta.google.com/group/vi-VN
> 
> 
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