[ubuntu-za] Downloads, repos and CDs

[Bill Cairns]

On Sun, Apr 10, 2011 at 10:02 PM, David Rubin <drubin at ubuntu.com> wrote:

>
> But honestly I am less worried about CPT/JHB/Pretoria as they are big cities
> and have pretty decent sized communities backing them and even if they can't
> get an "officially branded cd" they could get and ISO or copied cd from some
> one around them, the bigger issue is the smaller towns. Ship it was honestly
> their only resource for getting Ubuntu CD's because most of them were and
> still are on GPRS or 3g connections and downloading ISO with 3g sounds
> expensive and GPRS isn't even a possibility.

I am in Modimolle (Nylstroom) and as far as I know the only other
Ubuntu users around here are the few that I look after and feed with
CDs.

I have added myself to the list.

I feel that the need for some kind of broadband connection is quite
important - it is not just the basic system that one needs to
download, but also all the nice goodies that are available on the
repositories and which really make the difference between Ubuntu (or
Linux in general) and Windows. Without that connection, we have little
extra to offer the ordinary user.

I confess that I have not even tried to connect an Ubuntu machine
through 3G. Are there some clear instructions about connecting through
a cell phone available? It is not that intuitive under Windows.

Bill