Question by Answers: What kind of CD should I buy if I want to download Linux Ubuntu?
I don’t want to have Linux Ubuntu as my permanent operating system. I want to keep in on a CD, but which one do I need?
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Answer by Eric A
You want a LiveCD.
Knoppix is a better choice, it is designed to run from a CD or DVD (there are 2 versions, the DVD has a huge number of programs that run from the DVD).
http://www.knoppix.net/
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Question by optimus: How can you download programs to install on a Linux computer that’s offline?
My biggest qualm with Linux right now (if any) is that my parents are still stuck without an Internet connection. So if I want to add Linux-based software I have to perform a miracle by downloading not only the package I want but every package it depends on too… right?
Is there something I’m missing that’ll tell me what to get regardless, from another computer, so i don’t have to worry about the process?
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Answer by Ben
You’ll still have to grab all the dependencies separately, but you can download the software offline. Linux programs take one of 3 forms: Debian packages (used in Debian and Debian-based distributions like Ubuntu), Red Hat packages (used in Fedora, CentOS, and so on), and tarballs. With Ubuntu and Debian at least, each maintains an online version of the repository (at http://packages.ubuntu.com and http://packages.debian.org respectively) that let you download the .deb packages manually and bring them over to your parents house. The package pages also include links to those package’s dependencies, but there’s a good chance that many of those packages are already installed.
Alternatively, I suppose if you have a phone with a data plan, you could tether the phone.
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