> Why not just take this idea one step further, and instead of contructing a box to maintain, why not just have some willing member maintain the distro server on a USB 2.0 or firewire external IDE drive?

Or even better, you could invest in a $50 spindle of CDRs, and burn a
set or two of current install disks and bring those! You could even
split it out in a distributed fashion, find a bigot or two for each
distribution and have them maintain a set of install disks for their
favorite distribution. Which they're probably doing anyway. (note: may
contain sarcasm, the obvious, 'uninteresting' solutions, caffeine,
yellow dye #6, artificial flavoring)
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