2006/3/21, Hans Kristian Rosbach <hk@xxxxxxxxxxx>: > On Mon, 2006-03-20 at 23:29 -0600, Callum Lerwick wrote: > > On Mon, 2006-03-20 at 23:11 -0500, Dave Jones wrote: > > > DVD writers aren't anywhere near as commonplace as CD writers yet. > > > Looking around right now, I have 7 computers near me. CD writers outnumber > > > DVD writers 6:1. (And the majority of the computers with CD writers are > > > less than 2 years old (two of them are <6 months old)) > > > > > > (ironically, the dvd writer is my 3 month old laptop) > > > > Yeah, but you own at least one, and that's the point. Extend this to > > "friends with DVD writers". How many people don't have one? > > This does not hold in all cases. > > For example take any server hosting company, at least here the cd-roms > outnumber the dvd-roms approx 15:1 at the moment. All new servers gets > dvd-roms, but we don't want to exchange several hundred cd-roms into > dvd-roms. Besides I hardly ever need more than cd1 on those servers > due to the post-install script fetching most useful packages so I only > need to do a minimal install on all servers no matter what purpose they > will have. > > And then at home, I have dvd-roms in all my workstations but my mother > (and many others that I help out at times) does not. So i would still > need to carry the cd version as that is universally usable. For that > reason I have never even downloaded a single FC dvd image yet. > > My firewall and all development boxes have only cd-roms as most of them > are P2/P3/Xeon 700Mhz, and even my dual Xeon 2.8Ghz has a cd-rom. > > -HK > > -- > fedora-devel-list mailing list > fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list > do you go to every server in your rack and pop in an install cd/dvd? :) you serious? regards, rudolf kastl -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
