From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Mar 18 21:18:43 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7C0FA106566B for ; Tue, 18 Mar 2008 21:18:43 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from josh@tcbug.org) Received: from cenn-smtp.mc.mpls.visi.com (cenn.mc.mpls.visi.com [208.42.156.9]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 60BF38FC26 for ; Tue, 18 Mar 2008 21:18:43 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from josh@tcbug.org) Received: from mail.tcbug.org (mail.tcbug.org [208.42.70.163]) by cenn-smtp.mc.mpls.visi.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 180448128; Tue, 18 Mar 2008 16:18:42 -0500 (CDT) Received: from build64.tcbug.org (unknown [208.42.70.167]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mail.tcbug.org (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 24DAE6DA21E; Tue, 18 Mar 2008 16:18:41 -0500 (CDT) From: Josh Paetzel To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org, vadim_nuclight@mail.ru Date: Tue, 18 Mar 2008 16:18:22 -0500 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.7 References: <200803181433.m2IEXiFk019099@lurza.secnetix.de> In-Reply-To: <200803181433.m2IEXiFk019099@lurza.secnetix.de> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="nextPart35473249.a5uaWbBn1H"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=pgp-sha1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <200803181618.27706.josh@tcbug.org> Cc: Oliver Fromme Subject: Re: RELEASE discs & ISO images (for future) X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 18 Mar 2008 21:18:43 -0000 --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--