On Mon, 2003-09-15 at 23:05, Warly wrote:
Buchan Milne [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Warly, is there any reason not to make a 4th (entirely optional) ISO of
~ 200MB?
We have this dilemma about the download edition:
- download is a marketting product which should be better as possible
to
James Sparenberg wrote:
Taking your argument into consideration. Going with less on the
download version does tend to make the purchased version more appealing.
Make them larger or more in quantity. The 650 disk one + 700mb disk 2
and 3 is a very nice compromise. If you get up and
On Tue, 16 Sep 2003 21:40, Svetoslav Slavtchev wrote:
but tell me which bleeding edge PC has a 300W PSU ?-)
and dual SMP commonly needs = 400-450 :-)
...and count the monitor...
Cheers; Leon
Buchan Milne [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Warly, is there any reason not to make a 4th (entirely optional) ISO of
~ 200MB?
We have this dilemma about the download edition:
- download is a marketting product which should be better as possible
to make users switch or use mandrake and then buy
Leon Brooks wrote:
But I think 650 (at least for CD1) should be used to be as compatible
as possible. It's not always good to cater for the majority, some
minorities have a big influence (stupid journalist reviewers...)
I agree with this: 650MB for CD1, 700MB for the rest, buys us an extra
Le mar 16/09/2003 à 11:59, Pascal Terjan a écrit :
Leon Brooks wrote:
But I think 650 (at least for CD1) should be used to be as compatible
as possible. It's not always good to cater for the majority, some
minorities have a big influence (stupid journalist reviewers...)
I agree with
Teletchéa Stéphane wrote:
Le mar 16/09/2003 à 11:59, Pascal Terjan a écrit :
Leon Brooks wrote:
But I think 650 (at least for CD1) should be used to be as compatible
as possible. It's not always good to cater for the majority, some
minorities have a big influence (stupid journalist
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Leon Brooks wrote:
| On Mon, 15 Sep 2003 19:21, Jan Ciger wrote:
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|I would rather prefer good old 650MB. I can write the images to a
|CD-RW and when a new version is out, just rewrite them without having
|old obsolete CDs with old versions laying
On Mon Sep 15 23:17 +0200, Buchan Milne wrote:
Levi Ramsey wrote:
On Mon Sep 15 16:58 +0200, Buchan Milne wrote:
But we should try not to piss everybody off ... we've already pissed off
the freeloaders who don't like adware (and can't read), now we're going
to piss off those who have a
On Tue, 16 Sep 2003 19:27, Eric Fernandez wrote:
The problem is that stupid reviewers will say : I could install the
first CD but the 2 others don't work.
Don't tell the stupid reviewers about the other two CDs. (-:
Seriously, at least they are able to do an install, which they couldn't
do if
On Tue, 16 Sep 2003 20:20, Jan Ciger wrote:
Leon Brooks wrote:
| On Mon, 15 Sep 2003 19:21, Jan Ciger wrote:
|I would rather prefer good old 650MB. I can write the images to a
|CD-RW and when a new version is out, just rewrite them without
| having old obsolete CDs with old versions laying
On Tue, 16 Sep 2003 20:20, Jan Ciger wrote:
Leon Brooks wrote:
| On Mon, 15 Sep 2003 19:21, Jan Ciger wrote:
|I would rather prefer good old 650MB. I can write the images to a
|CD-RW and when a new version is out, just rewrite them without
| having old obsolete CDs with old versions laying
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Leon Brooks wrote:
| On Tue, 16 Sep 2003 20:20, Jan Ciger wrote:
| How much more energy does your computer use burning the rewriteable -
| slowly - each time than burning a one-shot? Budget about 70W for an
| economical Linux white box with a flat
Le mar 16/09/2003 à 06:05, Warly a écrit :
Buchan Milne [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Warly, is there any reason not to make a 4th (entirely optional) ISO of
~ 200MB?
We have this dilemma about the download edition:
- download is a marketting product which should be better as possible
to
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Levi Ramsey wrote:
On Mon Sep 15 23:17 +0200, Buchan Milne wrote:
This is only of value of course in places where fast connections are
ubiquitous ... I would *stronly* suggest not pissing off users who
bought boxed sets (or other media from the
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Buchan Milne wrote:
| Levi Ramsey wrote:
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|On Mon Sep 15 23:17 +0200, Buchan Milne wrote:
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|This is only of value of course in places where fast connections are
|ubiquitous ... I would *stronly* suggest not pissing off users who
|bought boxed sets
Jan Ciger wrote:
If there are CD-RWs availabe in 700MB size now (some people wrote, that
they are), then this point is moot anyway.
Jan
Jan, I recommend you Infinity 10X 700MB CD-RW, they work very well for me.
Eric
A poll on club shows that (now) most of the users prefers 700 MB
discs over 650 MB ones.
WDYT?
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Warly wrote:
A poll on club shows that (now) most of the users prefers 700 MB
discs over 650 MB ones.
Yup 700 is the way to go. In shops where I buy them I can't even see any
650 CD-Rs :)
On Mon, 15 Sep 2003 12:35:01 +0200
Warly [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
A poll on club shows that (now) most of the users prefers 700 MB
discs over 650 MB ones.
Does not really matter to me, I got blanks of both.
First thing I do after an installation is to remove the cd sources and
add ftp for
Le lun 15/09/2003 à 12:35, Warly a écrit :
A poll on club shows that (now) most of the users prefers 700 MB
discs over 650 MB ones.
WDYT?
+1
Stef
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On Mon, Sep 15, 2003 at 12:35:01PM +0200, Warly wrote:
A poll on club shows that (now) most of the users prefers 700 MB
discs over 650 MB ones.
WDYT?
for myself I'm happy with either size.
But I think 650 (at least for CD1) should be used to be as compatible as
possible. It's not always
On Mon, 15 Sep 2003, Jure Repinc wrote:
Warly wrote:
A poll on club shows that (now) most of the users prefers 700 MB
discs over 650 MB ones.
Yup 700 is the way to go. In shops where I buy them I can't even see any
650 CD-Rs :)
Yes, I'm voting for 700MB ISOs too. With this disc size we
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Warly wrote:
| A poll on club shows that (now) most of the users prefers 700 MB
| discs over 650 MB ones.
|
| WDYT?
|
I would rather prefer good old 650MB. I can write the images to a CD-RW
and when a new version is out, just rewrite them without
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Warly wrote:
| A poll on club shows that (now) most of the users prefers 700 MB
| discs over 650 MB ones.
|
| WDYT?
|
Wasn't this exactly the other way round last time ? I remember, that 9.0
~ shipped with 700MB ISOs and there were lots of complaints
Am Montag, 15. September 2003, 13:21:01 Uhr MET, schrieb Jan Ciger:
I would rather prefer good old 650MB. I can write the images to a CD-RW
and when a new version is out, just rewrite them without having old
obsolete CDs with old versions laying around.
Or does anybody know, where to get 700MB
Le Lundi 15 Septembre 2003 12:35, Warly a écrit :
A poll on club shows that (now) most of the users prefers 700 MB
discs over 650 MB ones.
WDYT?
No matter, all can be burned on DVD+rw 4.7 GB ;)
And all can be installed from mirror network tree.
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Warly wrote:
A poll on club shows that (now) most of the users prefers 700 MB
discs over 650 MB ones.
WDYT?
Most users have =128MB ram, but I don't see us adding features to the
installer to take advantage of the extra ram.
Remember your minimum
A poll on club shows that (now) most of the users prefers 700 MB
discs over 650 MB ones.
WDYT?
No matter, all can be burned on DVD+rw 4.7 GB ;)
And all can be installed from mirror network tree.
Yes! I vote for DVD(+/-R,RW) iso too ;-)
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Warly wrote:
| A poll on club shows that (now) most of the users prefers 700 MB
| discs over 650 MB ones.
|
| WDYT?
|
Wasn't this exactly the other way round last time ? I remember, that 9.0
~ shipped with 700MB ISOs and there were
Jan Ciger wrote:
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Warly wrote:
| A poll on club shows that (now) most of the users prefers 700 MB
| discs over 650 MB ones.
|
| WDYT?
|
I would rather prefer good old 650MB. I can write the images to a CD-RW
and when a new version is out, just rewrite
--- Warly [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
A poll on club shows that (now) most of the users prefers 700
MB discs over 650 MB ones.
WDYT?
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Warly
I think that people should be using the hd.img more and letting
y'all make the CD ISO images whatever size you want them to be.
However, I'd
A 3 650 Mb CD pack should be fine, it should be enough to put a standard
desktop for the end-user. Maybe even a 2 CD interbational release, with
2 aditional CDs with more apps.
Hi,
mainly personnal reasons but I prefer 650MB for short-time-life versions
(beta's and rc) because my CD-RWs are 650MB ones, 700MB for the final
version because I use 700MB CD-R and I want more packages ;-)
Berthy
Le lun 15/09/2003 à 12:35, Warly a écrit :
A poll on club shows that (now)
Le Lundi 15 Septembre 2003 14:07, cpjc a écrit :
Hi,
mainly personnal reasons but I prefer 650MB for short-time-life versions
(beta's and rc) because my CD-RWs are 650MB ones, 700MB for the final
version because I use 700MB CD-R and I want more packages ;-)
I fully agree ! I wished to write
On Monday 15 September 2003 12:35, Olivier Thauvin wrote:
Le Lundi 15 Septembre 2003 12:35, Warly a écrit :
A poll on club shows that (now) most of the users prefers 700 MB
discs over 650 MB ones.
WDYT?
No matter, all can be burned on DVD+rw 4.7 GB ;)
And all can be installed from
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Götz Waschk wrote:
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| Don't know about your country, but here in Germany you can buy good
| TDK CD-RWs with 700MB capacity at Vobis.
Seems, that I will have to look again :-) Last time I checked they
weren't available around here, but perhaps it
Le Lundi 15 Septembre 2003 14:39, John Allen a écrit :
On Monday 15 September 2003 12:35, Olivier Thauvin wrote:
Le Lundi 15 Septembre 2003 12:35, Warly a écrit :
A poll on club shows that (now) most of the users prefers 700 MB
discs over 650 MB ones.
WDYT?
No matter, all can be
I still prefer the 650Mb CDs. I have been burning all the Mandrakes
since 8.0 (and skipping 9.0) to the same set 650Mb CDRWs. If you stick
with 650Mb it makes it one less thing that can go wrong when someone
asks to try it.
Whatever you do, please don't create two differing sets of CD sizes
(i.e.
On Monday 15 September 2003 12:35, Olivier Thauvin wrote:
Le Lundi 15 Septembre 2003 12:35, Warly a écrit :
A poll on club shows that (now) most of the users prefers 700 MB
discs over 650 MB ones.
WDYT?
No matter, all can be burned on DVD+rw 4.7 GB ;)
And all can be installed
On 09/15/2003 06:41:50 AM, Jure Repinc wrote:
Warly wrote:
A poll on club shows that (now) most of the users prefers 700 MB
discs over 650 MB ones.
Yup 700 is the way to go. In shops where I buy them I can't even see any 650
CD-Rs :)
We've discussed this before.
It doesn't matter if 700 MB CD's
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Austin wrote:
| We've discussed this before.
| It doesn't matter if 700 MB CD's are available, it matters if someone
| wants to install Mandrake on an old i586 to make an ftp server or
| something. Or old laptops or whatever. They do not have the
On 09/15/2003 09:42:36 AM, Jan Ciger wrote:
Honestly, how many such old machines are going to be installed with
Mandrake ? I didn't see a machine unable to read 700MB ISOs in a very
long time. If the box is unable to read them, then probably Mandrake
isn't the best choice for it anyway - low
On 09/15/2003 05:52:36 AM, Austin wrote:
You will make some enemies by giving 650 MB CD's to a use with an old
machine,
Of course I meant 700 MB here.
Austin
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Austin wrote:
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| On 09/15/2003 05:52:36 AM, Austin wrote:
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| You will make some enemies by giving 650 MB CD's to a use with an old
| machine,
|
|
| Of course I meant 700 MB here.
| Austin
Agreed, but the tradeoff is, how many of such enemies are you
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Jan Ciger wrote:
Austin wrote:
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| On 09/15/2003 05:52:36 AM, Austin wrote:
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| You will make some enemies by giving 650 MB CD's to a use with an old
| machine,
|
|
| Of course I meant 700 MB here.
| Austin
Agreed, but the tradeoff is, how
Buchan Milne wrote:
Warly wrote:
A poll on club shows that (now) most of the users prefers 700 MB
discs over 650 MB ones.
WDYT?
Most users have =128MB ram, but I don't see us adding features to the
installer to take advantage of the extra ram.
Remember your minimum requirements. Machines which
On Monday 15 September 2003 10:57 am, Pascal Terjan wrote:
Buchan Milne wrote:
Warly wrote:
A poll on club shows that (now) most of the users prefers 700 MB
discs over 650 MB ones.
WDYT?
Most users have =128MB ram, but I don't see us adding features to the
installer to take advantage
Le lun 15/09/2003 à 17:21, Jan Ciger a écrit :
| Buchan Milne wrote:
| Warly, is there any reason not to make a 4th (entirely optional) ISO of
| ~ 200MB?
That's a good question. I guess, it would be much better, than trying to
squeeze everything on just three disks. This would allow using
måndagen den 15 september 2003 22.26 skrev Guillaume Bedot:
Le lun 15/09/2003 à 17:21, Jan Ciger a écrit :
| Buchan Milne wrote:
| Warly, is there any reason not to make a 4th (entirely optional) ISO of
| ~ 200MB?
That's a good question. I guess, it would be much better, than trying to
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Oden Eriksson wrote:
| To be anal and extreme I vote for a small basesystem+urpmi ISO, that way
| everyone's happy... Get the shit you want. Get more shit if you buy
the boxed
| set.
|
| The one that is not able to install whatever he like using urpmi
On Mon Sep 15 16:58 +0200, Buchan Milne wrote:
But we should try not to piss everybody off ... we've already pissed off
the freeloaders who don't like adware (and can't read), now we're going
to piss off those who have a dodgy CDROM drive who don't see the need to
spend $30 on a new one when
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Levi Ramsey wrote:
On Mon Sep 15 16:58 +0200, Buchan Milne wrote:
But we should try not to piss everybody off ... we've already pissed off
the freeloaders who don't like adware (and can't read), now we're going
to piss off those who have a dodgy
On Mon, 15 Sep 2003 19:00, Simon Oosthoek wrote:
On Mon, Sep 15, 2003 at 12:35:01PM +0200, Warly wrote:
A poll on club shows that (now) most of the users prefers 700 MB
discs over 650 MB ones.
But I think 650 (at least for CD1) should be used to be as compatible
as possible. It's not always
On Mon, 15 Sep 2003 19:21, Jan Ciger wrote:
I would rather prefer good old 650MB. I can write the images to a
CD-RW and when a new version is out, just rewrite them without having
old obsolete CDs with old versions laying around.
At AUD$0.40 a blank, who cares?
Cheers; Leon
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