On Fri, May 21, 2004 at 07:20:30AM +0000, Miguel A Paraz wrote: > Just a thought. Nobody is selling Linux CD's for sale from the > verified images, leaving the "pirate shops" with their bad copies. > > We should make it easier to share/exchange copies of our favorite > distributions. From time to time, people ask me where to get distro X, > but I can't answer.
Something that we've considered, but never implemented, is a cd-burning kiosk that could be placed in a coffee shop, internet cafe, mall, etc. which would allow people to come in with a blank cd and burn a distro. The concept that I was looking at involved using morphix as the base, boot into X and run mozilla with no window manager, X restarts if mozilla dies, and use a custom chrome for mozilla so that there are no unneeded buttons. Run a small web server, like boa, behind it and use cgi's to start burning jobs. Output cdrecord's info to a file or fifo that can be read to determine the status for the user. It's not that difficult, building a physically secure platform is the hardest part. We envisioned using old computer parts (14" monitor, 500MHz cpu) with a new 52x burner and fast hard drive. The new components would cost under $150 together, making the only real cost the time to build it and set it up. We were thinking that a coffee shop might welcome it if they could sell blanks. If the location already has wireless access, which is almost certainly the case in the US now, then they probably also have a fast enough internet connection to facilitate downloads of new ISO's at night. It's a good user group project if anyone has time, money, and building materials. Michael -- Michael Darrin Chaney [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.michaelchaney.com/ -- Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Mailing List [EMAIL PROTECTED] (#PLUG @ irc.free.net.ph) Official Website: http://plug.linux.org.ph Searchable Archives: http://marc.free.net.ph . To leave, go to http://lists.q-linux.com/mailman/listinfo/plug . Are you a Linux newbie? To join the newbie list, go to http://lists.q-linux.com/mailman/listinfo/ph-linux-newbie
