On Sun, 31 Oct 2010 14:12:29 +1300 Graham Lauder wrote: > On Saturday 30 Oct 2010 02:47:26 Renaud (Ron) OLGIATI wrote: > > On Friday 29 October 2010, my mailbox was graced by a missive > > > > from Kira <[email protected]> who wrote: > > > This one is already been replied: In some place in this world, some > > > countries don't have enough bandwidth to support such big downloading > > > data(May cause days...). > > > A might perfect solution is that making custom images according to > > > the need of downloader, but currently we don't seem to have such > > > plan. > > > > Fot such a case, a CD .iso that does a minimal install (with all > > locales offered), and leave the big packages (OO, Gimp, all the games > > etc) to be downloaded at leisure later. > > Oh god nonono! You obviously have a broadband connection. > > > > > Cheers, > > > > Ron. > > CD or DVD, either is too big to download on my dialup. a 700meg cd > would take a week to download considering that I have to keep phone line > free during the day and early evening.(that's of course as long as the > server supports resuming and the download doesn't break, which of course > you don't find out until the end, then you have to start all over. :/ > > People with limited connectivity want to be able to obtain media with > everything they are likely to need plus all the options if possible. > > It's why I went with OpenSUSE rather than Ubuntu, Suse comes on a > dualsided DVD, 64 bit one side, 32 bit the other, live gnome and kde > sessions on both sides and lots of options so that you can install a > full system of your choice from desktop to webserver without needing a > broadband connection. > > Ubuntu on the other hand /only/ comes on CD with one DE and a basic > desktop only install and it assumes you have a network connection, yet > it can't setup a dialup connection during install, MDK 8.0 used to do > that no problem. > > Please, DVD and a way to obtain the media at a reasonable price. > Hear! Hear! Beers for that man!!
John NZ
