The DJ wrote:
I like this idea. However , knowing (and living) in Brazil and having an idea of howWow, 7 digests were spawned from today's back and forth on this topic. About two digests from the latest ones people made the following suggestion and I wanted to ditto:
At the rate I've noticed, from finish of FCX to finish
of FCX+1 is about 8 months. (Give or take a month) So why not let FC4 be 5 CDs. When FC5 comes out at
the end of the year, we will have anaconda installing
from repos anyway, and we can trim down all the way to
1 or 2 CDs.
the distribution of high speed (or even cheap) internet connections around 3rd world countries is,
I'd vote for this choice only if there was a way (specially a simple one) for someone
with enough bandwidth to download all the packages from those extra repositories and
create a set of CDs/DVDs that can install the whole distribution without the need of extra
downloads afterwards (except for updates). After all , that's what happens around here... Someone
downloads the distribution and burns the isos for the friends/coworkers/LUG members who need them (or in some cases,
people buy the CDs online from stores like cheapbytes , since the dialup costs for downloading
a whole distribution like fedora are almost three times the price of the CDs + shipping)...
-- Pedro Macedo
