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Levi Ramsey wrote:
> On Mon Sep 15 16:58 +0200, Buchan Milne wrote:
>
>>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 ...
>
>
> However, how many people use the ISOs to install on a server (ISOs does
> *not* include those who buy a boxed version)?  I would think that
> most server installs are net installs.

All my machines with clients are installed of CD or DVD.

> Of course, this might mean having greater promotion of the net install
> option...

This is only of value of course in places where fast connections are
ubiquitous ... I would *stronly* suggest not pissing off users who
bought boxed sets (or other media from the store) since they don't have
the bandwidth to download ISOs ...

Regards,
Buchan

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