Wednesday, April 6, 2011

Ubuntu: more CD free installation

Canonical, the company that runs the Ubuntu Linux distribution, will no longer distribute free CD. Since 2005, a program - Ships - could receive - free of charge and around the world - an optical medium containing the latest version of the distribution, now in version 11.4 in a few days. Canonical therefore stops the program in question, apparently in part for reasons of cost.

In fact, if physically distribute an operating system that can reach hundreds of MB made sense in 2005, we are in 2011 and broadband is developed enough that the download is no longer a problem. Canonical always distribute CDs through the LoCo (local community dedicated to Ubuntu) and the company says it is still possible to make a copy directly for distribution, Ubuntu is a free and open source.

No comments:

Post a Comment