Re: we're underrepresented in India. :-(
On Tue, Mar 12, 2002 at 09:11:30AM +0530, Saugata Chakrabarti wrote: 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 .. The information that was available to me. In the last weeks, I had someone in India who contacted me privately, asking how/where to get Debian CDs, and upon looking through debian.org/CD, I didn't find a lot about India. It's great to know that there's such good support through LUGs! On Tue, Mar 12, 2002 at 02:26:27PM +0530, Saugata Chakrabarti wrote: 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. *Please* ensure that information about this and other sources of Debian CDs in India is added to the Debian website! See http://www.debian.org/CD/vendors/adding for more info. Cheers, Richard -- __ _ |_) /| Richard Atterer | CS student at the Technische | GnuPG key: | \/¯| http://atterer.net | Universität München, Germany | 0x888354F7 ¯ '` ¯ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: we're underrepresented in India. :-(
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 ;-) Saugata. On Mon, 2002-03-11 at 03:51, Richard Atterer wrote: On Sun, Mar 10, 2002 at 02:10:25PM -0500, Ben Collins wrote: If you do need a CD Image, you can download one (assuming you have access to a CD burner) from http://cdimage.debian.org/ If neither of these works for you, then there are CD vendors who will sell Debian CD's for very very very cheap (even my 5 year old can afford them). BTW, there's no CD image mirror in India (and only a single regular mirror). Also, there's only a single CD vendor, whose web pages only mention Hurd, not Debian. IMHO we're underrepresented in India. :-( Richard -- __ _ |_) /| Richard Atterer | CS student at the Technische | GnuPG key: | \/¯| http://atterer.net | Universität München, Germany | 0x888354F7 ¯ '` ¯ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] - My GnuPG key from: Saugata Chakrabarti [http://education.vsnl.com/saugata/saugataPGP4U.keyring.asc] ___ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: we're underrepresented in India. :-(
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]
[ilugc] Re: we're underrepresented in India. :-(
SC == Saugata Chakrabarti [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: SC Dear Richard, Debian is not underrepresented in India, Well, I think Richard is right. Although there are lots of Debian users here there is only one mirror thanks to Prof. Sriram. There aren't regular CD vendors who sell woody for instance, no cd image mirror. There are no Debian stalls during major events, there are too few Indian Debian developers (I'm talking of developers in India) etc. etc. Most folks dont have the bandwidth/resources to mirror all 11 architectures of debian in India. And boy do things move fast in the package pool. However, ftp.iitm.ac.in does mirror testing/stable and non-US. I am not sure there are other mirrors in India. SC Hope, in future you will think twice before comment anything SC in public ;-) I dont understand what was wrong with Richards comment it seems like a statement of fact. prabhu -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
