In India, GT-CDROM in Bangalore is the local stockist of Linux CDs in South India. http://www.gtcdrom.com/Debian-GNULinux.html The Debian version in their stock is 2.2 r3, and it is available also.
>>"if our website was available in Hindi and other Indian languages" Great Idea, FYI: In India, Ten blank CDs cost 135 INR, [equivalent == less than 3 USD]. So, one full distribution may comes within this .... :-) One Dollars Debian ;-) let see.... Saugata. On Tue, 2002-03-12 at 11:48, Chris Lawrence wrote: > On Mar 12, Saugata Chakrabarti wrote: > > Dear Richard, > > Debian is not underrepresented in India, > > > > We use to download ISO or raw format, write CDs and distribute within > > our LUG members. Most of the time, we just pay only the cost of blank CD > > and get our favorite Linux distributions in hand. > > > > I am shocked and astonished in your comment :-( > > What makes you feel like that .. ???? > > > > Hope, in future you will think twice before comment anything in public > > ;-) > > I think Richard's point is that there is a lack of vendors for people > who don't have contact with a LUG and/or don't have the bandwidth for > dowloading ISOs. While a number of vendors ship to India, it would be > good to have a few more vendors in India so people could get CDs more > quickly and inexpensively. > > Being a vendor isn't all that hard - you need the ISOs, a CD burner, > good access to blank media, envelopes, and stamps, and a spreadsheet > to keep track of the money for the taxman to get his cut. Nobody's > going to get rich selling Debian CDs, but it's a nice supplemental > income for relatively little work. > > (Having said that, I suspect Debian could do better in India if our > website was available in Hindi and other Indian languages. I realize > a lot of the tech community there speaks English, but that's true in a > lot of other countries where we've translated stuff too.) > > > Chris > -- > Chris Lawrence <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - http://www.lordsutch.com/chris/ > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
