Linux format review: Fedora Core 4

[Nicu Buculei]

Rahul Sundaram wrote:
> 
  > Software shelved:
> http://distrowatch.com/weekly.php?issue=20050711#1
> It has been that mentioned many  packages like Abiword, Exim, XEmacs and 
> XFCE has moved into extras as a effort to reduce bloat and this would be 
> a problem for users who want to retrieve such packages over a dial up 
> connection. I dont buy this argument. Lets assume for a moment that 
> Fedora Core 4 included all of these packages in a 5 CD collection 
> without moving anything to the extras repository, would users with a 
> dial up connection be able to download it then?.

This argument is valid. Dial-up users does not download isos over their 
dial-up connection, they either 1) download at other place (at work, a 
friend), 2) borrow and copy the discs or 3) wait (in my country like 3 
or 4 months after a release) for a computer magazine to come out with 
the discs included. So for them the content of the install set is very 
important.

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