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Subject: Re: OK, so what would YOU like to see on that second CD?
To: msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au (Michael Smith)
Date: Tue, 27 Feb 1996 08:19:41 +0500 (GMT+0500)
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In-Reply-To: <199602270121.LAA08310@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> from "Michael Smith" at Feb 27, 96 11:51:37 am
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> 
> Jordan K. Hubbard stands accused of saying:
> > 
> > I'm talking about the Walnut Creek CDROM distribution, of course, and
> > I'm starting to feel like my little "live CD" idea hasn't really
> > turned out to be such a big hit.  Most people aren't even sure how and
> > when to use it, just judging by the emails I get, and those that do
> > know what it's for report that they've used it oh, maybe once.  I
> > myself must confess to having used my copy of disk #2 only once, and
> > that was only to rescue myself by grabbing a copy of ld.so off of it. :-)
> 
> I've used it for md5'ing stuff that might have been corrupted, but I
> agree that it's not necessarily a great winner.
> 
> > So the question then naturally arises as to whether this second CD
> > might not be more usefully populated by something else..  A Lite2
> > tree?  A copy of Slackware 3.0?  The complete "naughty jpeg"
> > collection from ftp.penet.fi?  Just what would you folks like to see? :-)
> 
> Two seperate distributions : A single disk for -RELEASEs as before.
> (Perhaps when the ports/packages get too big, farm them off onto a second
> disk), and a 'developers supplement' disk, with the 'experimental' stuff,
> the CVS tree and anything else relevant.

I can suggest the CTM -current and -stable "base delta" and deltas upto 
the time of release too.
	
-SB