> I guess you can't educate by telling, and not even by offering as we see. > By publishing (not releasing the ISOs any other way) would result in a bad > image for SUSE - "not user friendly". > > So the best way would be not to release ISOs at all (exception: boot.iso), > but to publish a script which can build each ISO by fetching the files > from the inst- source tree. >
I like your idea! To get around that one of us that knows how to (not me), can write a program that creates an iso of the install type you actually want/need by downloading the packages and use the .sel files to construct whatever iso type they want. So if you install minimal, it will be minimal, with kde it will be that and so on. And even better have a Linux, Windows and Mac (ppc) program that does it. Probably written in C#/mono? And a bittorrent type of system with trackers downloading packages in a distributed manner from ftp/http sources around the world. That way load can be distributed and so on. Kind of what jigdo does, just much more user friendly really, since our goal is to be the most user friendly / usable distro. This issue will only get worse once we actually release. If we have issues with download speeds already now in development stages, just imagine what it will be with 10.0 going gold. Huhu! The world is waiting for SUSE 10.0 ..... The stable release has more mirrors, but those will be hit hard ........ you find this will be the Linux release of the year ...... if we are already getting these figures during our beta I expect around 50-100 times more traffic easily. Andreas openSUSE is SUPER: To help in the SUSE Performance Enhanced Release project visit http://www.opensuse.org/index.php/SUPER --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
