NonBroadbandUsers
Revision 4 as of 2005-10-18 19:03:34
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Created: Date(2005-10-06T21:17:58Z) by JaneWeideman
Priority: NeedsPriority
People: NeedsLead, NeedsSecond
Contributors: JaneWeideman
- Interested:
Status: UbzSpecification, BrainDump (then DraftSpecification then EditedSpecification then ApprovedSpecification), DistroSpecification?, CommunitySpecification
Branch: UbuntuTrack
- Malone bug:
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- BoF sessions: none yet
Summary
Non-Broadband Users -In general have some thoughts at non-broadband users and what they need/miss.
Rationale
Use cases
- Alice does not have broadband at home, but she has broadband at work. Using a nifty front-end to apt-zip, she is able to collect the packages she needs at work on her USB key for installation when she returns home.
- Bob uses Ubuntu on his laptop, and rarely connects to any network. He finds the network detection phase of the boot process very slow, and would like to disable it.
- Using a DVD containing all of Universe, Chris is able to install vastly more packages than are available on the installation CD without any connection to the internet.
- Joe, who doesn't have broadband at home, uses apt for windows or webapt at his windows machine at work to download a program including all its dependencies which are not installed by default on ubuntu in one compressed file, so he can install it easily at home.
Scope
Design
Implementation
Code
Data preservation and migration
Outstanding issues