[Nottingham] Newbie intro

[David Aldred]

In message <409FF87B.7000402 at coconutsmusume.co.uk>, Simon Osborne 
<flibblesan at coconutsmusume.co.uk> writes
>
>This gives me an interesting idea: Wouldn't it be useful to have a list 
>of people who would be willing to burn copies of the latest 
>distributions and software for the price of a few blank CDs or beer 
>money, and have this on the LUG pages? I know most of us probably have 
>broadband but it's a nice idea anyway.

I definitely agree that it would be a good idea!

For those without broadband, the download time of a lot of the linux 
stuff is simply prohibitive: my connection (standard ntlworld) cuts off 
after 2 hours.  Whilst you can reconnect, not every resume works!

What's actually even more offputting, looking at some of the sites, is 
that they don't specify the filesize to be downloaded.  So it could be 
five minutes, or five hours!

Some (all? I don't know!) Linux distributions appear to come with an 
'update via internet' system: sounds a nice idea unless you run into a 
big file!  Can such things be configured to get their updates from CD 
instead, or to abort if they find a download over a certain size?

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