Ron Stodden wrote:
>
> I cannot see any way of avoiding the initial download of that much
> data, other than mailing out CDs, but for V90 access it is a killer
> (gone from 50 hours to 77 hours, all going perfectly). I thing
> most V90 beta testers will have little option but to walk away.
>
I'm kind of surprised that V.90 users would download a whole linux
distribution these days anyway. I tried that once. Before DSL I would
download the distro image at work toss it on a jaz disk ( or burn a CD
at work ) and then install it at home.
> Distribution by iso images is NOT practical yet for people without CD
> burners or inadequate disk space. So you will lose another major
> group of beta testers, unless the ability to install directly from
> the two iso images (does not yet exist) is made available.
I actually think that you find the beta testers are those with spare
disk space. And one can get other testers by being nice to co workers
and friends and burning CD's if one is so equipped ( I did that today
for a co worker who I've raved about Mandrake about.)
>
> That aside, a concerted effort should be made to devise an efficient
> beta update distribution process. I strongly recomment rsync, since
> it will make updates within files (such as iso images) practical,
> using an absolute minimum of server and client bandwidth. This makes
> keeping up to date quite practical for the V90-equipped beta
> testers. However, there are three requirements on Mandrake:
>
I agree here. Though perhaps in the beta test distributions one could
use Mandrake Update that gets the changes from the cooker distribution
sites.
-randy
