Not Much Traffic Here

[David Ball]

On Thu, 03 Nov 2005 14:57:14 +0100, ubuntudude <ubuntudude@foo.bar>
wrote:

>Let's hope we will have more traffic here as well soon, Ubuntu is
>getting more popular AFAIK

Ubuntu seems to show up a lot on websites lately. They must be doing
something right.

Is it available on CD or do you have to download it? I'm stuck on a
56k modem for now.

-- David

[Luc Weyn]

Both, you can download it from their website or you can order it on CD. They
even don't charge you for P&P. you receive the CD's completely free. Their
website is [url]www.ubuntu.com[/url] You'll have to register before you can order the
CD's but that too is free.

Luc

"David Ball" <davidbemail-1q04@yahoo.com.nospam> schreef in bericht
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> On Thu, 03 Nov 2005 14:57:14 +0100, ubuntudude <ubuntudude@foo.bar>
> wrote:
>

> >Let's hope we will have more traffic here as well soon, Ubuntu is
> >getting more popular AFAIK

>
>
> Ubuntu seems to show up a lot on websites lately. They must be doing
> something right.
>
> Is it available on CD or do you have to download it? I'm stuck on a
> 56k modem for now.
>
> -- David
>

[Phil Stovell]

On Sun, 20 Nov 2005 18:48:54 -0600, David Ball wrote:

> On Thu, 03 Nov 2005 14:57:14 +0100, ubuntudude <ubuntudude@foo.bar> wrote:
>

>>Let's hope we will have more traffic here as well soon, Ubuntu is getting
>>more popular AFAIK

>
>
> Ubuntu seems to show up a lot on websites lately. They must be doing
> something right.
>
> Is it available on CD or do you have to download it? I'm stuck on a 56k
> modem for now.
>
> -- David

You can get it mailed for free, see the shipit (iirc) link on the Ubuntu
website. I received 5 copies of 5.10 in the mail on Saturday. Each pack
contains a live CD and an install CD. I had to wait about 3 weeks, mind.

--
Phil Stovell, South Hampshire, UK

Save Gales Brewery
[url]http://www.savegales.org.uk/[/url]

[::Surfer::]

Luc Weyn wrote:

> Both, you can download it from their website or you can order it on CD. They
> even don't charge you for P&P. you receive the CD's completely free. Their
> website is [url]www.ubuntu.com[/url] You'll have to register before you can order the
> CD's but that too is free.
>
> Luc

The Ubuntu site is actually [url]www.ubuntulinux.org[/url].
To get free CDs you'll need to log on to this site:
[url]https://shipit.ubuntu.com/[/url]

>>>Let's hope we will have more traffic here as well soon, Ubuntu is
>>>getting more popular AFAIK

>>
>>
>>Ubuntu seems to show up a lot on websites lately. They must be doing
>>something right.

I think a lot more people head over to [url]http://www.ubuntuforums.org/[/url]
imho. This newsgroup has very few entries. The Ubuntu forums website is
quite active.

Cheers

[Mike]

::Surfer:: wrote:

> Luc Weyn wrote:
>

>> Both, you can download it from their website or you can order it on
>> CD. They
>> even don't charge you for P&P. you receive the CD's completely free.
>> Their
>> website is [url]www.ubuntu.com[/url] You'll have to register before you can order
>> the
>> CD's but that too is free.
>>
>> Luc

>
>
> The Ubuntu site is actually [url]www.ubuntulinux.org[/url].
> To get free CDs you'll need to log on to this site:
> [url]https://shipit.ubuntu.com/[/url]
>

>>>> Let's hope we will have more traffic here as well soon, Ubuntu is
>>>> getting more popular AFAIK
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Ubuntu seems to show up a lot on websites lately. They must be doing
>>> something right.

>
>
> I think a lot more people head over to [url]http://www.ubuntuforums.org/[/url]
> imho. This newsgroup has very few entries. The Ubuntu forums website is
> quite active.
>
> Cheers

I use Ubuntu... it's a great debian based distro. The forums, wiki, and
IRC are great sources of support.

[Wayne]

On Fri, 09 Dec 2005 22:57:05 -0500, Mike wrote:

>> I think a lot more people head over to [url]http://www.ubuntuforums.org/[/url]
>> imho. This newsgroup has very few entries. The Ubuntu forums website is
>> quite active.
>>
>> Cheers

> I use Ubuntu... it's a great debian based distro. The forums, wiki, and
> IRC are great sources of support.

I'm kind of old fashioned, I prefer a Usenet group over web based
forums :-) I'm glad this group was created. I hope more users find
their way here.

Wayne
--
Registered Linux user #375994
[url]http://www.geocities.jp/rondonko/[/url]

[Hakim Singhji]

Wayne wrote:

> I'm kind of old fashioned, I prefer a Usenet group over web based
> forums :-) I'm glad this group was created. I hope more users find
> their way here.

Enter the following in your news reader:

gmane.linux.ubuntu.user

Best,
--
Hakim Singhji | New York University
[url]http://www.uranus.dontexist.com[/url]

"... the Mayo Clinic, named after its founder, Dr. Ted Clinic ..."
-- Dave Barry

[Moe Trin]

On Sat, 10 Dec 2005, in the Usenet newsgroup alt.os.linux.ubuntu, in article
<439ba6d9$0$15791$14726298@news.sunsite.dk>, Hakim Singhji wrote:

>Wayne wrote:

>> I'm kind of old fashioned, I prefer a Usenet group over web based
>> forums :-) I'm glad this group was created. I hope more users find
>> their way here.

Don't forget that Ubuntu is based on Debian, and thus both the regular
Linux groups (comp.os.linux.*) and the Debian groups would be helpful.

>Enter the following in your news reader:
>
>gmane.linux.ubuntu.user

Just because it's on your news server doesn't mean it's on all.

[compton ~]$ grep ubuntu .newsrc
alt.os.linux.ubuntu
[compton ~]$ wc -l .newsrc
105101
[compton ~]$

That's giganews.

Old guy

[Wayne]

On Sun, 11 Dec 2005 19:31:23 -0600, Moe Trin wrote:

>>Enter the following in your news reader:
>>
>>gmane.linux.ubuntu.user

>
> Just because it's on your news server doesn't mean it's on all.

Not on Individual.net either

Wayne
--
Registered Linux user #375994
[url]http://www.geocities.jp/rondonko/[/url]

[Gordon]

Wayne wrote:

> On Sun, 11 Dec 2005 19:31:23 -0600, Moe Trin wrote:
>

>>>Enter the following in your news reader:
>>>
>>>gmane.linux.ubuntu.user

>>
>> Just because it's on your news server doesn't mean it's on all.

>
> Not on Individual.net either
>
> Wayne

That's because gmane is a news server on it's own - like
news.individual.net. So you won't /get/ anything with gmane in it on
news.individual.net! :-)
--
Registered Linux User no 240308
Ubuntu 5.10
gordonDOTburgessparkerATgbpcomputingDOTcoDOTuk
to email me replace the obvious!

[Moe Trin]

On Tue, 13 Dec 2005, in the Usenet newsgroup alt.os.linux.ubuntu, in article
<4083gaF18t7tsU2@individual.net>, Gordon wrote:

>Wayne wrote:

>>Moe Trin wrote:

>>>>gmane.linux.ubuntu.user
>>>
>>> Just because it's on your news server doesn't mean it's on all.

>>
>> Not on Individual.net either

I suspect it's to new

>That's because gmane is a news server on it's own - like
>news.individual.net. So you won't /get/ anything with gmane in it on
>news.individual.net! :-)

Can't speak for news.individual.net, but at giganews:

[compton ~]$ grep -c gmane .newsrc
85
[compton ~]$ grep -c gmane.linux .newsrc
20
[compton ~]$

Most commercial news servers like to advertise that they have more groups
than anyone else, and collect newsgroups from all over. Doesn't mean that
anyone reads them - but if you want the newsgroup for gerbils using Linux
on an iMac - it's probably out there, and a hundred different servers
carry it. Actually, looking at the titles of the gmane.linux.* groups,
they look as if they started life as mirrors of a number of mailing lists.

Old guy

[Wayne]

On Tue, 13 Dec 2005 14:17:46 +0000, Gordon wrote:

>>> Just because it's on your news server doesn't mean it's on all.

>>
>> Not on Individual.net either
>>
>> Wayne

>
> That's because gmane is a news server on it's own - like
> news.individual.net. So you won't /get/ anything with gmane in it on
> news.individual.net! :-)

Well, there doesn't seem to be much point of adding another news server
either if I already have news.individual.net. I wonder why I was pointed
to gmane in the first place, seems silly :-)

Wayne
--
Registered Linux user #375994
[url]http://www.geocities.jp/rondonko/[/url]