On Saturday 11 January 2003 15:03, Damian Gatabria wrote:

> > I don't know any other software company that ships their official,
> > commercial software distribution on CDs>650MB.
>
> In my country, a lot of artists compose albums of nearly 80min, and
> this requires 700MB CD's. Magazines also include 700MB CD's with
> goodies.
>
In my country nearly all artists sell their audio-cd with a shitty 
copy-ptotection, so I can't play them at all on my machine and some have 
problems with regular audio-hardware too. So what, they did not care, but 
Mandrake have to care.

> I may be wrong, but i *think* Photoshop 7 comes in a 700MB CD.
>
pointless too. Have you ever tried to run Photoshop 7 on an P 133 MMX ? Thats 
the hardware Mandrake have to run too.

> I may be wrong here too, but i also think that the spanish version
> of Corel Draw 11 comes in 5 CD's of 700MB each.
>
see above. And for both the price of a new CDROM-drive does not matter since 
you have to pay a lot for it and your machine needs power to run them. I 
would agree with you if this release is compiled for athlon64 or so, but 
there are machines out there with 133 Mhz and I guess XFCE or IceWM will run 
fine on them. At least it is a high-powered router with such a CPU. 

If it there for the burning I wouldn't care. But the same images will be 
shipped as PowerPack I guess. And have machines that could not install the 
powerpack is bad, and copying to hd is pointless, since with what should the 
content of cd copied ? 

Greets

Steffen

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