On Monday 28 August 2006 12:51, Mulo Emmanuel wrote: > It is a good idea to keep the distros updated but the bandwidth necessary to > maintain this is a problem I can imagine.... IN any case it is good to have > volunteers willing to contribute to keep it updated. Guess the EACOSS admin > shall have to work out how that shall be done. > > > On Sat, 26 Aug 2006 15:18:03 +0300, Francis Musinguzi wrote > > Wire, > > > > I can get U access to all the distros you can need. The problem is accessing > them through the MUK firewall. The problem is that no one in administration > seems to think that it's important to have a local mirror for distros and open > source. Everyone keeps crying justification, not realising that setting up the > mirror could in itself be a justification for more bandwith and resources. > > > > Bravo EACOSS. The thought was nice, but the system needs to be advertised > and updated to be useful. This doesn't imply that collect any junk, but rather > identify afew worthy apps and distros and MAINTAIN them. If given access I > would be willing to maintain such a system, since downloading isn't a > problem. > > > > Those who need distros could contact me personally, so that we could arrange > a way to pick the CDs from MUK, FCIT. > > > > FRANCIS. > > > > ============================================================================== > > > > > > Reinier writes: > > > > Hi Mulo, > > > > That's a very rich repository you guys & girls are running there. > (http://mirror.eacoss.org/software/ ) > > > > Too bad it is not very up-to-date. Even the ubuntu/kubuntu/edubuntu CD's > that you received two months ago are not there. > > > > I'm just busy downloading Debian here, this would have speeded things up > greatly. > > > > rgds, > > > > reinier > > > > On Saturday 26 August 2006 13:53, Mulo Emmanuel wrote: > > It is available on the EACOSS mirror. > > > > On Fri, 25 Aug 2006 17:29:50 +0300 (EAT), wire wrote > > > Alex > > > > When you get a copy, gimme a holler. I need it too (for memories' > > > > > sake) > > > > Wire > > > > > hi everyone > > > > > > > > Am wondering if anyone on the group has Slackware 10.1. ?? > > > > Please let me know how I can obtain a copy > > > > I kinda need it urgently > > > > > > > > ALex > > > > ========== > > > > > > > > ------------------------- > Uganda Martyrs University > Information and Communications Technology Department > P.O. Box 5498 > Kampala, Uganda > Tel: +256-(0)38-410611 > Fax: +256-(0)38-410100 > Web: http://www.umu.ac.ug > -------------------------- > > _______________________________________________ > LUG mailing list > [email protected] > http://kym.net/mailman/listinfo/lug > %LUG is generously hosted by INFOCOM http://www.infocom.co.ug/ > > The above comments and data are owned by whoever posted them (including > attachments if any). The List's Host is not responsible for them in any way. > --------------------------------------- > > _______________________________________________ LUG mailing list [email protected] http://kym.net/mailman/listinfo/lug %LUG is generously hosted by INFOCOM http://www.infocom.co.ug/
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