Hi Alec, On Wed, 2007-07-25 at 21:10 +0100, Alec Wright wrote: > On Wed, 2007-07-25 at 20:57 +0100, Ian Pascoe wrote: > > > And of course the beauty of HDDs is that they're R/W, so you store the > > up to date images on a server and when the HDDs go out you just copy > > across the latest image. > > That just gave me an idea... (if you're sane you'll stop reading now) > Canonical could sell external hard disks with version(s), > architecture(s) and (what do you call those things which main, > restricted, universe and multiverse are?)(s) which you choose on them. > After you've chosen what you want (eg main and restricted for feisty and > dapper), they recommend the right size hard drive for you. They put the > repos on the hard drive and send it to you. > Then perhaps you could send it back to them and them pay them a bit to > update it... > Except there'd probably not be much demand for this. It would only be > useful in large businesses, which would almost undoubtedly have an > internet connection. Oh well... My idea sucks... Live with it. > >
Er, that's exactly what I proposed when I first brought this up, only not Canonical specifically doing it. :) Cheersm Al.
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