Date: Tue, 18 Mar 2008 16:18:22 -0500 From: Josh Paetzel <josh@tcbug.org> To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org, vadim_nuclight@mail.ru Cc: Oliver Fromme <olli@lurza.secnetix.de> Subject: Re: RELEASE discs & ISO images (for future) Message-ID: <200803181618.27706.josh@tcbug.org> In-Reply-To: <200803181433.m2IEXiFk019099@lurza.secnetix.de> References: <200803181433.m2IEXiFk019099@lurza.secnetix.de>
next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
--nextPart35473249.a5uaWbBn1H Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline On Tuesday 18 March 2008 09:33:44 am Oliver Fromme wrote: > > > Yes, but DVD is still in the future. > > I don't quite understand. Most PCs have a DVD drive. > You can buy DVD-ROM drives for $20. > > Sure, there are old boxes that still have CD drives > only. I'm not saying that FreeBSD should stop making > CD ISO images. But it doesn't have to be the main > focus anymore. The majority of people do have DVD > drives, so the focus should move to providing a DVD > ISO image, getting rid of various problems (space > constraints, CD shuffling annoyance). "Legacy" CD ISO > images could still be provided, but it's lower priority. > The real constraint is that there is pressure from the ftp mirror maintaine= rs=20 to keep what they have to mirror as small as possible. Due to the nature o= f=20 dvds and cds you can provide everything via cd for a user and he/she can=20 trivially create a dvd image from them, or you can provide a dvd image and= =20 either eliminate the cd image and the users who depend on cd images or lose= =20 the ftp mirror sites that refuse to carry the significantly larger FreeBSD= =20 site. =2D-=20 Thanks, Josh Paetzel PGP: 8A48 EF36 5E9F 4EDA 5A8C 11B4 26F9 01F1 27AF AECB --nextPart35473249.a5uaWbBn1H Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.8 (FreeBSD) iEYEABECAAYFAkfgMaMACgkQJvkB8Sevrstt8ACdFYuGwr62IUSAnUhEzAoikO1o urQAnRNq/tvFKYmP/TRdRQHEsvyAwo/+ =QfSU -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --nextPart35473249.a5uaWbBn1H--
Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?200803181618.27706.josh>