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.

-- 
Ken Schneider
UNIX  since 1989, linux since 1994, SuSE  since 1998


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