Hi Martin, * Martin Bochnig (martin at martux.org) wrote: > Hey Glenn, Dave, all, > > just as a proof that this type of "covenience1st" user exists: > > http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/indiana-discuss/2009-May/015550.html > He was even that much convenient, that he asked this question on > indiana-discuss, rather than here (despite my indiana-discuss > cross-posting of yesterday). > > IMO he represents the *majority* of casual users out there. > Here my follow-up reply: > http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/indiana-discuss/2009-May/015553.html > .
So, that's *one* additional potential consumer of such an image. I'd hardly classify that as a 'majority' of casual users. :-) > It doesn't need to be a LiveDVD with much more Live-available apps or > functionality (due to the poor I/O). > What many users are looking for is simply a legacy install-DVD (maybe > now incorporated into a slim LiveDVD functionality). > Such as ((existing LiveCD put on DVD) + (IPS-Loopback-Repo-on-DVD)). > > Maybe perform a survey at distrowatch if somebody underestimates the > significance of such a DVD. > Not everybody in the world has 24x7x365 highly reliable low-cost > broadband bandwith like we do. So, speaking to that. What's the better tradeoff between downloading an all encompassing 4+ gb dvd versus a 650 mb cd and then some relevant additional packages. In the latter case, you're downloading a whole lot less which if you have limited bandwidth availability is better, right? No matter what you do, you have to have download bandwidth somehow. Cheers, -- Glenn
