On Fri, Sep 01, 2006 at 03:11:50PM +0200, Joachim Schipper wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 01, 2006 at 09:50:34AM +0800, Tito Mari Francis Esca?o wrote:
> > On 9/1/06, Madars <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > >...I do trust the packages that are on the CDs, but as
> > >space is limited, you can't put all of them there.
> > Does the OpenBSD project consider the use of DVD to distribute the
> > package set on a per architecture basis?
> > IMHO can be in line with the project's objective of distributing the
> > OS (and packages?) in CD (or in this case, DVD) sets to support the
> > project.
> > On the buyer's side, it guarantees the reliability/authenticity of the
> > packages; on the project's side, it's a new way of distributing OS
> > support applications.
> 
> Now *that* would suck. Most of my i386 boxes won't read a DVD, and I'm
> fairly certain that getting a sparc to read a DVD isn't as easy as
> making a i386 do the same.
That's one of the reasons it (probally) won't happen.
I'm looking forward to equip my iMac with a dvd-drive...

> 
>               Joachim
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