On Thu, Apr 16, 2009 at 12:25:31AM -0500, Arthur Pemberton wrote: > On Wed, Apr 15, 2009 at 10:36 PM, Jesse Keating <jkeating@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > On Wed, 2009-04-15 at 19:44 -0700, Roland McGrath wrote: > >> > Alternative: dual/double layer DVDs have come down in price a good bit. > >> > /me ducks and runs > >> > >> More image flavors and sizes involves concerns for mirrors et al. > >> But how about a jigdo-only (and torrent too?) reconstructable image > >> of either a second dvd, or a dual-layer sized big dvd? Or even of > >> 3x dual-layer dvd images to hold it all on "canonical" media images. > > > > Jigdo is a usability disaster. Our users have a hard enough time just > > getting a direct iso download and burning it successfully, to try and > > throw jigdo at them would be... painful. > > > I would like some further explanation on this opinion of yours. > Jigdo is one of the reasons I don't look forward to downloading the fedoraunity respins :) I guess it's easier on the bandwidth providers, but ultimately much slower than downloading the normal Fedora ISO's from a mirror. Usually takes a couple runs to get all the files too. Granted, I may be using a lousy client... Ray -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
