Fedora 9 Everything Spin released

[Jeroen van Meeuwen]

Bill Davidsen wrote:
> Jeroen van Meeuwen wrote:
>> Fedora Unity is proud to announce the release of the Fedora 9 
>> Everything Spin!
>>
>> Go to http://spins.fedoraunity.org/spins to get the bits!
>>
>> The Everything Spin includes everything available at the time of the 
>> release of Fedora 9. It is the same, really, it is. Just more. Way, 
>> way more! And the more Fedora, the better!
>>
>> The i386 as well as x86_64 Fedora 9 Everything Spin is rather large, 
>> yet sized a fashionable 4 DVD's. You can imagine carrying those around 
>> as your complete, instant, bootable and installable mirror of 
>> everything Fedora has to offer -at the moment Fedora 9 was released. 
>> Of course you could just use a USB Harddrive, or even USB thumbdrive 
>> (16GB), but that wouldn't make the Everything Spin any more fun now 
>> would it?
>>
> Haven't had a chance to look at this, but is this still based on old 
> single layer DVD sizing? While not all old DVD burners will burn D/L 
> DVD, based on a sample size of 12 old burners and players, they all seem 
> to read D/L just fine.
> 
> And Blu-ray won the HD battle, Linux supports using the burners, how 
> about a real everything on a single media release?
> 

If you had looked at the download link at least, you would have seen CD, 
DVD, DVD Dual Layer and Bluray ISO images available for download.

> Is this really "everything" or will we have to go to repositories in 
> free countries for working media players and best encryption?
> 

This is "Everything", as in 
http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/releases/9/Everything/$arch/os/Packages

Kind regards,

Jeroen van Meeuwen
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