On Tue, August 21, 2007 10:12 pm, Steve Holdoway wrote: >> > >> What makes you think the city council/library want to provide this >> service, would allow a computer set up by an unknown purpose, have the >> bandwidth to replicate the multitude of distros, and the staff to >> maintain it? > > Now, if you were talking about providing that service to/via clug, it > would be a different matter. And one I would support wholeheartedly - > seeing as I'm constantly downloading the latest images... for - ahem - > testing purposes officer (: > > Steve >
Where would you set up such a service? Obviously not going to work standalone, need another business to tack on to, like a net cafe or whatever. I don't imagine your boss is going to stand for queues of people at the door clutching $1 coins or wanting to swap a third hand video card for the latest CD :-) Actually trademe often has people advertising linux cd's e.g. http://www.trademe.co.nz/Computers/Software/Operating-systems/Linux/auction-114563184.htm?p=14 Although obviously not necessarily a solution for a traveller, it may be useful for some. It does illustrate the economics of it - the product is roughly the same price as the postage! Talk about carbon costs! -- Nick Rout
