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>
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[-- Attachment #1 --] 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 maintainers to keep what they have to mirror as small as possible. Due to the nature of dvds and cds you can provide everything via cd for a user and he/she can trivially create a dvd image from them, or you can provide a dvd image and either eliminate the cd image and the users who depend on cd images or lose the ftp mirror sites that refuse to carry the significantly larger FreeBSD site. -- Thanks, Josh Paetzel PGP: 8A48 EF36 5E9F 4EDA 5A8C 11B4 26F9 01F1 27AF AECB [-- Attachment #2 --] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.8 (FreeBSD) iEYEABECAAYFAkfgMaMACgkQJvkB8Sevrstt8ACdFYuGwr62IUSAnUhEzAoikO1o urQAnRNq/tvFKYmP/TRdRQHEsvyAwo/+ =QfSU -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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