On Mon, 2006-05-15 at 18:19 +0200, houghi wrote: > On Mon, May 15, 2006 at 03:54:01PM +0200, jdd wrote: > > * as I said, send 1 source dvd for 10 boxes to dealers or at > > least brokers. cheap and at hand for the user. > > 1 in 10? Also these then need to be sold and thus packaged and so on. > Either you include them, or you don't. Just having then lying around > people would walk in and use them as coasters. > > > * ask dealers to download the source dvd for a small fee > > That you can always do. Wether they are willing to do so is another > matter. Also many people irder online. > > > * direct users to the LUGs, most have power users that can > > make disks for friends (solution most used here) > > Not realy an option for many people. Best way is to have a friend download > it for you. > > Still leaves the question if there should be an ISO with sources at all. I > don't believe so. Some might use one or a few sourcescodes from selected > programs, but not enough to warrant a full source ISO download. > > The main exception is perhaps the kernel source. Put the in the boxed set > and people with slow downloads already have that biggest part that they > might need. People who are willing to download the ISO, also are able to > download the files as is. The kernel sources used to compile the kernel is included even in the 5 iso set. I install it as routine because of VMware.
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