On 13 Oct 2003, at 6:24 pm, A. S. Budden wrote:
Thus spake Stroller: [snip]
Distribution on DVD might make installation of binaries easier.
For what it's worth, here in the UK, this month's Linux Magazine comes with Gentoo on the disc (with instructions on how to install from CD rather than network). They do a CD version and a DVD version, the latter having an enormous number of packages...
It's certainly worth a look - even if the packages are in source form, such a DVD would be useful for folks on dial-up. Although such publications are undoubtedly useful for newcomers & for popularising Linux, I don't really want to spend money on a Linux magazine that I'll never read - but I do rather feel it might be worth a couple of quid in order to produce a BitTorrent of such a useful DVD.
However, I don't know
whether there're binaries or not -- I couldn't use the thing anyway, my
laptop's <insert lots of swearing here> snazzy firewire CDRW/DVD drive
doesn't like Linux very much at the time of writing. I'm hoping I can
get this working either with gentoo and my first kernel compile (no luck
yet) or with kernel 2.6.
I'm sure you will. The great thing I found about installing Gentoo on my laptop was that I learned all about the kernel compilation options that I'd always rushed through before. ;-]
Stroller.
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