Am Samstag, 11. Januar 2003, 13:18:23 Uhr MET, schrieb Buchan Milne: > > This was already discussed on this list. I have to disagree, 700MB CDs > > are really common. I've never met a writer that could't write up > > to 703 MB on the cheap 700 MB CD-R. > It's not the writer's that are the issue, it's the millions of CD-ROM > drives that can't read them that are the issue, even for boxed sets.
Sorry, I didn't know that there are readers that cannot go 700 MB, I've never seen this problem, even with the oldest double speed CD-ROM drives I've used. > Another misconecption by Europeans and Americans. Just the shipping cost > alone on anything bought outside in Europe or the states is the same > price as a GPL set from Mandrakestore or half a club membership. There is > no local ebay, the closest is bidorbuy.co.za, which currently lists 5 > writers, cheapest is approx $50. Yes, as someone living in one of the richest countries I wasn't too aware of this. > Do we really want a distro that will install on fewer machines than > Windows XP, Redhat 8.1, SuSE 8.2, Lycoris, Lindows and Solaris 9 > Intel??????? No, but you still can install from network or hd. But if this problem is easily solvable, it should be done. CU -- G�tz Waschk <> master of computer science <> University of Rostock http://wwwtec.informatik.uni-rostock.de/~waschk/waschk.asc for PGP key --> Logout Fascism! <--
