Linux format review: Fedora Core 4

[Rahul Sundaram]

Nicu Buculei wrote:

> 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.
>
1) and 2) can be done for individual packages too. In fact for both 
these cases, downloading what they want instead of whole ISO images 
makes a lot more sense

regards
Rahul