Monday 10 Oct 2005 13:09 samaye Martin Sommer alekhiit: > The name "Eval" is because > it > > 1. is not the DVD of the box
What did not come out of the box is called "evaluation" in English or any other language? No personal sarcasm meant, but I haven't bought any evaluation apples or oranges till now - the English language just doesn't work that way. And the various confused queries on this list stemming from the usage word "Eval" are proof of that. [ Would you care to look up Merriam Websters: http://www.m-w.com/cgi-bin/dictionary?book=Dictionary&va=evaluation ?] > 2. has much less content than the DVD of the box since the boxed DVD has > 8.5 GB and the EvalDVD has 3.5 GB. Then call it a "light" DVD, not an "eval" DVD. *But*, if you call this DVD light, then you must call the CDs "light" too, else people will never know (without all the footnotes added by me and others at http://www.opensuse.org/Template:ReleasesTable) that the CDs and the DVD have the same contents, and that again gives rise to questions on the list - causing unnecessary traffic on the list, expenditure of energy on the part of the questioners, answerers, computers... IMO you should simply remove the word Eval. If you want to emphasize that people are not getting the fullllll thing by downloading (I can understand why you might want to do that) then call *all* the downloadable files "light" or "slim" or whatever. Not just one or two of them. And certainly not "Eval". Suggested new file names: (from the list lifted off: ftp://mirrors.kernel.org/suse/i386/10.0/iso) SUSE-10.0-CD-i386-GM-Light-CD1.iso SUSE-10.0-CD-i386-GM-Light-CD2.iso SUSE-10.0-CD-i386-GM-Light-CD3.iso SUSE-10.0-CD-i386-GM-Light-CD4.iso SUSE-10.0-CD-i386-GM-Light-CD5.iso SUSE-10.0-CD-i386-GM-Light.iso.torrent SUSE-10.0-CD-i386-GM-Light.torrent SUSE-10.0-DVD-i386-GM-Light.iso SUSE-10.0-DVD-i386-GM-Light.iso.torrent SUSE-10.0-DVD-x86_64-GM-Light.iso SUSE-10.0-DVD-x86_64-GM-Light.iso.torrent SUSE-10.0-LiveDVD.iso SUSE-10.0-LiveDVD.iso.torrent All those in concurrence with me raise their virtual hands and say "aye". Shriramana Sharma.
