Most will agree, that space on a 700MB CD is somewhat limited, even when using clofi with highest and most cpu-intensive compression algorithm and ratio, such as gzip-9.
While the concepts of modern Network-Repos such as IPS (or e.g. conary) are a really innovative nice technology, and while they offer users way improved much more fine-grained control over what they want to install, and how to "patch" a system, it can be annoying that a user who simply wants to quickly install "all" available packages at once, has currently no better choice than installing the limited CD contents to hdd and later needs to $ pfexec pkg install redistributable ... which involves more slow I/O operations over the Network and therefore takes much longer than downloading a single (equally file-sized) iso image and installing that from DVD. Therefore I hereby propose an optional OS2009.06 LiveDVD which works analogous to the matching CD, which can be created in exactly the same way via DC, everything matching, but which includes all stuff from /dev on disk and installs everything. Right now via cpio and all at once as a single global overall-cluster. Later on pkg-cluster support could follow. I know that I'm lagging behind with many of my announced (then not yet delivered projects). I'm involved in too many exciting things, it is difficult to focus on - and push through - one dedicated thing. But this LiveDVD could be a high-ranking candidate ... Cheers, %martin
