[Scottish] GNU/linux cd's wanted for social centre

Georgia Thomson georgia_grrl at blueyonder.co.uk
Mon May 17 11:04:28 BST 2004


if i can get jigdo to work, i'm happy enough to do debian DVDs. and 
that does sound like a plan.
On 17 May 2004, at 10:45, William Anderson wrote:

> Colin.Speirs at scotland.gsi.gov.uk wrote:
>> [snip]
>>> not if the 20 quid was being donated to something....  (and i'm not 
>>> sure the beer fund counts for that one, but that's something someone 
>>> else should figure out)
>> £20 would buy a few CDs or DVDs. Could be used to put distros on for 
>> donations to organisations
>
> having a spare monitor (or one to use if they're short) is surely more 
> useful than CDs which people can burn and donate themselves?
>
> Perhaps we could all burn a wide range of distros and tools (knoppix, 
> debian, slack, fedora, open CD, open office, maybe even some bsden), 
> put them all together at the next slug meet and put them in a box to 
> give to the centre?  Anyone else know of any similar sites which would 
> benefit from such a service?  I'm sure a lot if not most of us have a) 
> an optical writer, b) decent bandwidth, c) access to reasonably cheap 
> media ...
>
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