On Mon, 2007-07-09 at 16:20 +0200, Alberto Passalacqua wrote: > Il giorno lun, 09/07/2007 alle 09.46 -0400, James Tremblay ha scritto: > > I believe a complete restructuring of openSUSE's delivery should be > > considered. To provide as little difference between the download and the > > retail versions as possible should be the goal, And there are > > differences. check the bug > > https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=282531 there are differences > > even the devs forget. > > > > my proposal is no dvd: > > cd1 kde or gnome base install > > cd2 OS extension, rest of yast and anything that could be called as an > > underlying dependency to an application. > > cd3 server applications i.e apache2,mysql,etc > > cd4 server applications that rely on cd3 > > cdx0 more server applications > > cdX1 desktop applications, this could be more than one cd if catagories > > demand the space. It could also include the EDU-CD > > cdX2 non-oss > > cdX3 etc > > > > This way a person downloading would only need to choose the desktop and > > what they want to accomplish beyond that. > > To be honest, it seems to me the proliferation of CD's and it doesn't > solve the problem. The user would have to download 1 CD and almost > surely multiples CD's due to dependencies. > > I'd stick with one DVD with the current configuration and eventually > _reduce_ the number of media by removing the 1-5 CD set, which I don't > think is widely used. > > In other words: > > - _FULL_ DVD for both architecture > - 1 CD install for GNOME and KDE > Those people you advocate for with slow or limited internet connections are likely to still have a CD-Rom drive not a DVD drive. They may even only have a pII\pIII as well. -- James Tremblay Director of Technology Newmarket School District Newmarket,NH http://en.opensuse.org/Education "let's make a difference"
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