On Wednesday 24 October 2007 18:10, Reinier Battenberg wrote: > So, to get a Ubuntu repository, you would need a company that wants to > sponsor it. That is not necessary a marketing thing, but could also be a > company that needs to update its 100 computers itself, and therefor has an > interest in a repository. Sharing would not add much to that. > Basically, that is the same principal as in general with FOSS.
So if you got the companies that do linux support to sponsor bandwidth for a server to act as a local repository, they would all benefit. As long as the IX was functioning properly, they could easily even begin doing installations via ftp which is something I doubt anyone here has done off anything but a local LAN :-) Noah. _______________________________________________ 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. ---------------------------------------
