Thanks to the Debian CD Team!
Posted: 2017-12-03 01:58
And to everyone who participates in the popularity contest!
Hi everyone. I'm new to Debian.
I came here after a long search for how I could put all (or most) of the software from my distros repository on a USB stick. After being very discouraged with the size of most repositories and the inability to separate the common packages from the least commonly used ones, I gave up on cloning my distro's repositories. But, I stumbled upon apt-cdrom and Debian's popularity contest, which is used to place packages in order by popularity on the DVD/CD images containing both the installer and repositories.
I just wanted to say: this is awesome! In a time when people just assume users to always have internet all of the time, it's quite difficult to find anyone thinking about users who may want or need to do things offline.
I hope this project continues well into the future, even after dvds become extinct and wifi everywhere is a thing. I'd still have use for it, even in those cases.
For now, I'm enjoying my new, portable, "off the grid" netbook setup, which is comprised of:
- Debian + the Debian DVD images for all of my Software
- stackdump, for searching/hosting StackOverflow/StackExchange dump files
- The Simple English Wikipedia (using a zim file / reader)
All installed on a GDP Pocket netbook, so I have all of my software and knowledge repositories anywhere, with or without internet, and can power/charge my computer via mobile batteries or compact, fold-up solar panels.
Hi everyone. I'm new to Debian.
I came here after a long search for how I could put all (or most) of the software from my distros repository on a USB stick. After being very discouraged with the size of most repositories and the inability to separate the common packages from the least commonly used ones, I gave up on cloning my distro's repositories. But, I stumbled upon apt-cdrom and Debian's popularity contest, which is used to place packages in order by popularity on the DVD/CD images containing both the installer and repositories.
I just wanted to say: this is awesome! In a time when people just assume users to always have internet all of the time, it's quite difficult to find anyone thinking about users who may want or need to do things offline.
I hope this project continues well into the future, even after dvds become extinct and wifi everywhere is a thing. I'd still have use for it, even in those cases.
For now, I'm enjoying my new, portable, "off the grid" netbook setup, which is comprised of:
- Debian + the Debian DVD images for all of my Software
- stackdump, for searching/hosting StackOverflow/StackExchange dump files
- The Simple English Wikipedia (using a zim file / reader)
All installed on a GDP Pocket netbook, so I have all of my software and knowledge repositories anywhere, with or without internet, and can power/charge my computer via mobile batteries or compact, fold-up solar panels.