Re: Morlug downloads

Yeah, I wouldn't mind throwing it on maelstrom though, either, if 
someone else is willing to actually generate the content.  I have 
unmetered bandwidth.  I'm already mirroring a few other software 
projects and such on there.

Michael Bond wrote:
>> To make it less expensive, we could offer the iso image to download 
>> from morlug.org <http://morlug.org>,
> 
> My bandwidth bill could potentially go through the roof if we do this. 
> 
> So, unless we are starting to collect dues or donations to help pay for 
> the bandwidth off my server i'm vetoing doing the distribution from 
> morlug.org.
> 
> Mike.
> [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>
> 
> 
> 
> 
> On Mar 2, 2007, at 10:32 AM, Andrei Smirnov wrote:
> 
>> Referring to our last discussion about how to attract more students to 
>> Morlug:
>> The shop with pins and T-shirts worked great for me.
>> However, the newcomers, they would first need to see the usefulness of 
>> the movement before they will buy the associated symbolics.
>>
>> So, what about setting up a live-linux distro packed with some useful 
>> software which will run out of the box?
>> My favorite would be Octave.org <http://Octave.org>.
>> Then we could advertise something like: "Free Matlab for Everyone!", 
>> and let people download precompiled
>> binaries that would run on our live-CD, or if they choose to install 
>> Linux, they could get the binaries from our site as well, or could 
>> install it with yum -y install octave, or apt-get .... or whatever.
>>
>> To make it less expensive, we could offer the iso image to download 
>> from morlug.org <http://morlug.org>, or give the CD for those who come 
>> to our meetings. The download catalog will be open for everyone to 
>> see, but
>> the download site will be only opened for morlug members.
>> I am sure we can compile an impressive catalog of useful applications 
>> that run under Linux.
>> Many people don't know why they need linux, and what they can do with it.
>> Take even OpenOffice. If we just let the local students see that there 
>> is an alternative to Microsoft Office, which works well and is also 
>> free it will be a nice surprise for many.
>>
>> An anekdotal evidence from last year: one of our PhD students got his 
>> MS-Powerpoint file corrupted. Powerpoint simply refused to load it no 
>> matter what. And it was an important file of his thesis defense, which 
>> he did not care to backup. So, he asked me to try to open it on Linux. 
>> I tried OO, and it could opened it, and recovered practically all the 
>> original content.
>>
>> Finally, any plans for Saturday night? Maybe a brief tea-party at 
>> Blue-Mouse or such?
>>
>> Andrei
>>
>> -- 
>> Andrei V. Smirnov, PhD.
>> http://smirnov.mae.wvu.edu
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