On Monday 07 Jan 2002 11:57 am, MJ Ray wrote:
Jenny:
If enough people could come to one or the other we could have a small website and library discussion to organise them into shape.....both topics that crop up from time to time and get dropped without being resolved.
It's not dropped. I'm still on the case. I might even do something about it while online today (most likely during the later part of the ALUG IRC) if things are exceedingly good. You know my plans (and they're in the December email archive).
As to the software library: do you mean that, or would a software directory on the web site be more useful? While the lending library is good (although David seems to have gone away with it?), some of us do not want to fund proprietary software products.
I was meaning a software library thats available at ALUG meets... Yes ISO's are avalable for download all over the place, but when was the last time somone tried downloading a 600MB+ ISO with a 56k modem!!!....
The idea (and reason) is I downloaded the RedHat 7.2 ISO's down an ISDN line and it took 3 days (including 2 disconnects that I didn't pick up on)...
So really it's for the people who don't have a blistering internet connection but do want to get hold of newer distro's without having to sell their children to pay for them....
I can provide something like this but can't give dates and times as to when I'd be getting them, as the "company's" fibre connection is down in London and I never know when I'll be in to collect the images of the servers....
Simon