Hello Odhiambo!

Sun, Sep 25, 2005 at 09:46:36PM +0300 you wrote:

> * On 25/09/05 19:48 +0200, Wolf wrote:
> > >I suggest FreeSBIE CDs specialized in:
> > > Network: (tools, security, net-mgmt, etc)
> > >Multimedia: (players, audio video tools, games)
> > >Desktop: (KDE, Gnome, Utils, Icewm, Office Suite, Print, Samba, PDC, etc)
> > >Servers: (Apache, lighttpd, Blogs, Zope, Wiki, backups, etc,)
> > >Developers: (C++, Ruby, Phyton, Pascal, Assembler, FORTRAN, LISP, etc)
> > >
> > 
> > On a related note, what about a really-stripped-down version which would
> > allow a person with a slow link try out 6.0 easily?
> 
> How does a stripped down CD help someone with slow link? I don't get it.

If a full-sized CD is, say, 600M, and a minimal one is 60M, the download
time decreases ten times:)

If you download the compile scripts only, you need to have a system to
build them on in the first place.

> > And why not a DVD with everything in ? :)
> 
> Again, we need to look at the project's goals ;)

Which are... where? You mean

> With FreeSBIE you will be able to surf the Internet, to have a nice
> multimedia experience, to meet your friends with cool chat programs and
> to evaluate a real FreeBSD system without the pain to install it.

? Then why, for example, was bacula in 1.1?

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