Date: Wed, 20 Jul 2011 17:38:10 +0000 From: rgaudin@gmail.com To: offline-l@lists.wikimedia.org Subject: Re: [Offline-l] Possible template problem
Secondly, I find that the use of external hard drives being expensive and unreliable. Expensive, since one HDD costs around €50. Unreliable because I distrust students and how sure am I that in a month's time, the students or teachers wouldn't have taken the hard disks and used them for their own personal use? Also it can be easily deleted, unlike when it's on DVD.
Not sure what you point is here. Kiwix runs on everything from DVD to USB Sticks or HDD or servers. Here in West Africa, CD & DVD are single use only at most due to dust and quality of hardware.
What I meant to say here is that using external HDD as opposed to DVDs is expensive. And yes, most DVDs are DVD-R format -- but that is not a problem because you can use the same DVD to install the offline Wikipedia from one school to another. Abbas.