On Thu, Jul 29, 2010 at 12:49 AM, Shabab Mustafa <[email protected]> wrote: > 2nd point is about labs and small offices. Suppose a school has 10 computers > in their lab. So, if they want to install any software in their computer, > they need to download and install same packages 10 times. And I hope you are > not going to tell me that, schools are going to buy 10 modems for 10 > computers. Downloading same things 10 times are time consuming too. And it's > the picture of only one school. Here I am seeing resources (bandwidth) and > time are going to be wasted in a much more less productive way than thinking > and making offline repo
This can be resolved very easily by creating a local mirror of ubuntu repo. The mirror will be in a pc in the school and every other pc will be attached to it via LAN. In that case client pcs need to change their repo server address in /etc/apt/sources.list to ip address of their local mirror. After creating a local mirror the hard disk image can be distributed. This can be technically explained later. So the distribution package will contain 2 CDs and 1 HDD. 1. Client PCs will get 1 Ubuntu CD 2. Mirror Server PC will get 1 Ubuntu CD and a HDD for Mirror. Distributing over HDD is a good idea to me. Cause DVD tends to get corrupted even faster than CD. And a school or any other institute can effort an HDD. If it was a personal, its really a bad idea. But for institutional point of view, its okay. (Sun Microsystem Distributes Data Center in a container! I am just talking about HDDs) Shiplu Mokadd.im My talks, http://talk.cmyweb.net Follow me, http://twitter.com/shiplu SUST Programmers, http://groups.google.com/group/p2psust Innovation distinguishes bet ... ... (ask Steve Jobs the rest) -- Ubuntu Bangladesh | http://ubuntu-bd.org [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bd
