On Thu, 2005-02-24 at 22:08 +0100, Leonard den Ottolander wrote: >Hi Jef, > >On Thu, 2005-02-24 at 21:46, Jeff Spaleta wrote: >> Yes.. eventually OO.org will grow to take up 4 cds. But by that point >> it will be a general purpose operating system in its own right, so we >> won't notice a difference in the end. All this nashing of teeth is >> just growing pains. > >Seems more like a case of shrinking pains to me. Anyway, not really an >answer to my question is it? With individual packages growing we will >have lack of room on the 4 CDs for the next release as well. Long before >OOo grows to 4 CDs all by itself. Packages always growing? Bah, every programmer knows that the most useful tool is the delete key. ;-) In all seriousness, a lot of the best software development manages to add features *and* shrink the codebase *and* make everything faster. Eventually, yes, it will probably become impossible to fit a complete OS (and mainstream apps) on a couple CDs. By that time, though, one would hope that DVDs would be more common place as a software distribution mechanism. Not much longer than a decade ago it was rather far-fetched to think that you could distribute software without offering a floppy version. ;-) > >Leonard. > >-- >mount -t life -o ro /dev/dna /genetic/research > > -- Sean Middleditch <elanthis@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
