Re: Where has the F10 DVD iso file gone?

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There's no need to be nasty, I very new at this and had no idea what's
involve (as I mentioned before) in the making of an ISO.  One day if I
keep at it I will be as good as you profess to be.




On Tue, 2008-12-30 at 20:34 -0600, Chris Adams wrote:
> Once upon a time, Lawrence E. Graves <lgraves@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> said:
> > John, strange you should say that.  A few days ago, I asked a friend of
> > mine that same question.  I personally think that whenever there are
> > updates to Fedora 10 after you have installed it, there should
> > automatically be an undated ISO.  When the need arises, there will
> > always be a fresh version of Fedora 10.  I don't know what's all
> > involved in the making of an iso, but it sound feasible.
> 
> That certainly isn't feasible.  There are updates almost every day,
> especially for the first couple of months after release.  Ignoring the
> actual work involved in spinning a release, even if you just respin the
> DVD ISO and not the CDs or LiveCDs, and only for the binaries and not
> the sources, that would be almost 12G of daily churn (plus the actual
> updates) on the mirrors.  Torrents wouldn't help with only a 24 hour
> "shelf life".
> 
> It also makes debugging somebody's install problems virtually
> impossible, since you have no idea what release-of-the-day they are
> using.
> 
> -- 
> Chris Adams <cmadams@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Systems and Network Administrator - HiWAAY Internet Services
> I don't speak for anybody but myself - that's enough trouble.
> 

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