Re: [Cooker] Why 700MB CDs there is easyer to write to 650MB andless to download

2002-09-10 Thread Richard Houser
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 erik wrote: | Sitsofe Wheeler wrote: | | On Thu, 2002-09-05 at 21:41, erik wrote: | | | If for instance Openoffice is remove from download version no problem | to get M9.0 into three 650MB CDs. Possible to burn CDs from 650MB | burners increase

Re: [Cooker] Why 700MB CDs there is easyer to write to 650MB andless to download

2002-09-09 Thread erik
Sitsofe Wheeler wrote: On Thu, 2002-09-05 at 21:41, erik wrote: If for instance Openoffice is remove from download version no problem to get M9.0 into three 650MB CDs. Possible to burn CDs from 650MB burners increase market. And less download time Unfortunately OpenOffice is

Re: [Cooker] Why 700MB CDs there is easyer to write to 650MB andless to download

2002-09-06 Thread Byron Poland
On Fri, 2002-09-06 at 11:19, Vox wrote: Warly [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Jason [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I disagree, IMHO the download CD's should be as complete as possible. For example, AFAIK the 3rd CD of the betas and RC1 has had nearly 200MB of free space left on it while

Re: [Cooker] Why 700MB CDs there is easyer to write to 650MB andless to download

2002-09-06 Thread Warly
Vox [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: All the packages will be available on the live tree, of course. Will they be urpmi-able? Contrib stuff has never been installable through urpmi except on the release CDs, and now that it won't be available in the dld edition would be a good time to add

Re: [Cooker] Why 700MB CDs there is easyer to write to 650MB andless to download

2002-09-06 Thread Texstar
Keep in mind that people coming from Windows who may want to try Linux (Mandrake of course) need to be able to burn them from Windows applications as well. On Fri, 2002-09-06 at 14:16, Brent Hasty wrote: On Friday 06 September 2002 11:49, Byron Poland wrote: I dont mind the 700 meg cd's,

Re: [Cooker] Why 700MB CDs there is easyer to write to 650MB andless to download

2002-09-06 Thread Warly
Jason [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I disagree, IMHO the download CD's should be as complete as possible. For example, AFAIK the 3rd CD of the betas and RC1 has had nearly 200MB of free space left on it while important contrib packages have been left out. This should not be the case. If a 3rd CD

Re: [Cooker] Why 700MB CDs there is easyer to write to 650MB andless to download

2002-09-06 Thread Sitsofe Wheeler
On Thu, 2002-09-05 at 21:41, erik wrote: If for instance Openoffice is remove from download version no problem to get M9.0 into three 650MB CDs. Possible to burn CDs from 650MB burners increase market. And less download time Unfortunately OpenOffice is exactly the sort of app that I

Re: [Cooker] Why 700MB CDs there is easyer to write to 650MB andless to download

2002-09-06 Thread Warly
Sascha Noyes [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: The interesting question is whether this move is intended to: a: animate people to buy powerpack or prosuite and/or b: save download bandwidth c: make the beta tester test exactly what will be available in download edition, as well as in packs, and