On Fri, 2003-01-10 at 18:47, Jason Straight wrote: > Man this talk about iso size is petty, it's the price to pay for progress, > deal with it. Should distribute on tapes? 360K floppies? 720K floppies? > 1.44mb floppies? 650MB CD's, 700MB CD's? and in 5 years do you think they'll > be using CD's at all?
Price of progress? The price of progress is part of what got me to use linux. I shouldn't have to upgrade hardware to use my software or downgrade software to use my hardware. What about the progress of Mozilla to Phoenix? Thats a great example of getting rid of bloat and getting down to the basics of what you need! Price of progress? Why not ask all the people who have lost jobs when corporations started un-bundling? > Maybe they should compile it for i386 too? How about more support for the text install, or more support for the text version of drak(e) tools? Because there is new hardware available for the consumer doesn't mean you should forget about what consumers already own. And if perchance you find yourself tossing out old hardware because you don't want/use/isn't fast enough for what you want to do try donating it somewhere to schools for thin clients or to server farms that love to pump out seti-units. How would you like it if/when your job position is gone due to the price of progress? What would you do? Find another purpose? tjfontaine
