-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Jan Ciger wrote: > Austin wrote: > | > | On 09/15/2003 05:52:36 AM, Austin wrote: > | > |> You will make some enemies by giving 650 MB CD's to a use with an old > |> machine, > | > | > | Of course I meant 700 MB here. > | Austin > > Agreed, but the tradeoff is, how many of such enemies are you going to > make, compared to benefit of having some more packages on the CDs ? You > will never manage to make everybody happy.
But we should try not to piss everybody off ... we've already pissed off the freeloaders who don't like adware (and can't read), now we're going to piss off those who have a dodgy CDROM drive who don't see the need to spend $30 on a new one when they could buy some other distro for the same price or use Redhat instead. And I suspect there may be other news that will piss even more off ... BTW, the problems you see on a machine that can't handle 700MB disks are not that obvious, it looks pretty bad ... > Mandrake was never targeting old machines or servers, it was/is > percieved as "desktop" distro optimized for current machines (though you > can still make a very good servers with it - I am running three myself). Go look on MandrakeClub, the poll on "Do you run Mandrake on a server, desktop, or both". Last I looked, 50% answered "both". > You are probably not going to run KDE (the default desktop) or new Gnome > on the old machines anyway unless you are a masochist. Sure, but Mandrake is a nice distro to put on an ICS box, on a small firewall (if MNF still works) etc etc. Plus we have about 6 WMs in contrib aimed at lowe spec machines. I have a number of production servers with <64MB ram, some on pretty bad hardware (client can't afford proprietary software *or* new hardware). > > More valid argument is the problem with people burning 700MB ISOs on > 650MB media (I did this mistake myself) or the problems to get 700MB > CD-RW media, but it seems to be a less pressing problem today than one > year ago (when 9.0 was released on 700MB ISOs). Yes, that's another good reason. Warly, is there any reason not to make a 4th (entirely optional) ISO of ~ 200MB? Regards, Buchan - -- |--------------Another happy Mandrake Club member--------------| Buchan Milne Mechanical Engineer, Network Manager Cellphone * Work +27 82 472 2231 * +27 21 8828820x202 Stellenbosch Automotive Engineering http://www.cae.co.za GPG Key http://ranger.dnsalias.com/bgmilne.asc 1024D/60D204A7 2919 E232 5610 A038 87B1 72D6 AC92 BA50 60D2 04A7 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.2 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQE/ZdOzrJK6UGDSBKcRAleYAKCa3uX6p1N3q80tXWHrj2xliyVTCgCgm2gZ YcpKxWeJ8IinXhXYFayySSc= =X69+ -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- ***************************************************************** Please click on http://www.cae.co.za/disclaimer.htm to read our e-mail disclaimer or send an e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] for a copy. *****************************************************************
