> 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. )
