> Don't forget about Debian Jigdo:
> http://www.debian.org/CD/jigdo-cd/
>
> It allows you to download all the latest files needed
> for a Debian CD and then creates an .iso. I've used it
> a few times and it works great. I can see where this
> would be good to use for a friend who is on a dial-up
> connection but wants the latest.


There have always been tools to rebuild Redhat based distributions with
updates.  I used to package redhat 5.2 and early 6 series iso's with
errata updates to use at lug meetings.  If you've ever looked at the
mirrors for updates it's interesting.

For example:  Redhat 9 Original RPMs on the cd's:
1.7G    ./RPMS

Redhat 9 Support updates and errata:
54M     ./athlon
485M    ./i386
54M     ./i586
90M     ./i686
6.9M    ./noarch


That's an extra CD's worth of updates that you need immediately after
installation.  Prep work for a new iso is worth the effort.


Debian leans more towards network installs.  Even if you have the full cd
set, during install you can set apt to retrieve from security.debian.org
and you will pull any updates from the network during the install.  (not a
good idea on dialup of course)


But, releasing a new DVD version of a distribution twice a week seems a
bit excessive, and obviously that's not much time for testing.  I didn't
see if they were going to make it available via download.  If so, they
should make it available via rsync, then you could fairly easily update an
iso image to the new version with less download time. ( seems like very
few distributions consider the download issues for dialup users and
updates. )


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