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Idea #16926: Ship Ubuntu in Live DVD

bug This idea is a duplicate of Idea #9095: Send the DVD by shipit.ubuntu.
Written by zakaria the 30 Dec 08 at 20:31. Related project: Live CD. Status: New
Rationale
I am from Bangladesh where internet connection is very much slow. It takes almost 8 hours to download ubuntu iso. Now imagine how much time it takes to download other necessary softwares.

Why not there is any option to ship ubuntu in a Live DVD with a repository of various important softwares?

In our country ubuntu is getting popular day by day. But it is very much frustrating for us when we find that after installing Ubuntu, one cannot rely on it completely until he download additional softwares.

So it will save our life if Canonical can ship ubuntu in Live DVD with software repositories.
Tags: DVD Live

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Written by zakaria the 30 Dec 08 at 20:31.
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glotz wrote on the 30 Dec 08 at 21:19
Happy downloading! ;) http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/releases/hardy/release/

zephyrcat wrote on the 30 Dec 08 at 23:31
You can buy Ubuntu DVDs at the Canonical Shop, but I am not sure if they have what you are looking for:

https://shop.canonical.com/

ampers wrote on the 31 Dec 08 at 00:33
+1 as I think we have a duty to help third world countries.

mindaslab wrote on the 31 Dec 08 at 01:44
Good idea, but what about important security updates? +1 for this one.

ushimitsudoki wrote on the 31 Dec 08 at 04:56
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Don't understand why people think Canonical (or any other company) should subsidize their bandwidth problems.

Also, any repos shipped on the DVD will need lots of downloaded updates a month or two after the DVDs are shipped.

This is better addressed locally, like setting up a local mirror for repositories, or asking ISP to cache downloads or the like.

cheesehead (Brainstorm moderator) wrote on the 31 Dec 08 at 05:02
Or organize a DVD-by-mail and update-by-mail program with your LoCo.

zakaria wrote on the 31 Dec 08 at 05:13
@glotz
Thanks for sharing the link. But the DVD size is 3.9GB which means it will take more than 45 hours to download with a slow connection. Another problem is, only a few percent of people have internet connection.

@zephyrcat
Yes we can buy it, but mass people in 3rd world countries do not have the ability to buy product from online.

@mindaslab & @ushimitsudoki
Actually at this moment security updates are not important. We just need to run it in our pc, people have internet connection can update it.

@ushimitsudoki
Canonical is shipping Ubuntu CD to anyone. Only one more step is needed to support countries like ours.

Everyone, thanks for your support.

mrfzmn wrote on the 31 Dec 08 at 05:45
Canonical can set up an distributor to Bangladesh. Like KASPERSKY Antivirus did it for bangladesh. People buy this antivirus CD from store.

They can contact with BDOSN(Bangladesh Open Source Network)...

nq6 wrote on the 31 Dec 08 at 11:08
http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/idea/9095/
http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/idea/9096/
http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/idea/9567/
http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/idea/9095/

sayakb (Brainstorm admin) wrote on the 31 Dec 08 at 12:50
Idea marked as duplicate.


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