[PLUG] Distro downloads 'n stuff

Richard Lidzbarski eikonoklastic at comcast.net
Mon Jun 16 05:48:39 UTC 2008


On Sunday 15 June 2008 08:52:36 pm John Jason Jordan wrote:
> Another scintillating afternoon at Free Geek has ended with another
> more or less successful Clinic. Lots and lots of people, so if someone
> is promoting the Clinic, your work is paying off. Keep doing it!
>
> In consideration of the issues of Denis' need for a CD of Gutsy
> Alternate and my idiocy in deleting my copy of it, I been thinking
> about distros and the Clinic. Some thoughts:
>
> 1) There are a ton of distros, many with multiple versions. There are
> more than a dozen just for each version of Ubuntu.
>
> 2) It never fails that the one that someone needs is the one I left at
> home.
>
> 3) Bandwidth at Free Geek is not good enough to download an entire
> distro in the time allotted.
>
> 4) It turns out that I have a 60 GB USB hard drive that I am not using.
>
> In consideration of the above, I have decided to dedicate the 60 GB
> hard drive to the Clinic. It will live in a box that I always bring
> with me to the Clinic. I will populate it with the latest downloads of
> all popular distros and keep them on it for a couple of years. At the
> Clinic we can then just burn a CD of whatever someone needs in a few
> minutes. I have pretty good bandwidth at home, and torrents can run
> unattended on my desktop. My real main computer is my laptop, so it's
> not a big deal if my desktop is downloading ISOs.
>
> Having said that, I know there are distros that I should maintain on
> the disk, but I don't know which ones. Considering its popularity, I
> certainly plan on maintaining all versions of Ubuntu. But what else do
> people think I should have on it? Puppy? DSL? Fedora? Others?
>
> It was also suggested at the Clinic that I could maintain an ad hoc
> repository on it as well. However, I countered that such might take way
> more space than is available. But maybe a minimalist approach would be
> doable. Comments from y'all on this idea are also welcome.
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John,

Sounds like a great idea. FYI I did get my POS Broadcom card working just fine 
with that 15 step method I showed ya. Ubuntu is now set free! ;-)~

Richard

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