Providing patched DVDs to potential users

[Rob Garth]

For the bandwidth concious, a network install will always be the
better option, unless someone is willing to send/give them a respin,
or they can purchase one, and it will never eliminate the need for
patches.

I would like to see a subscription system where users are sent a
monthly dvd of patches, and a 'yum localupdate' would update them. It
could be charged simply to cover costs, or profits could be fed back
into the project.

However, as Fedora Unity is not an official part of the Fedora Project
I cannot imagine Fedora ever doing anything like this. Though of
course under the GPL there is nothing stopping anyone else doing this.

On 6/10/06, nicola .:kOoLiNuS:. losito <suser.koolinus at gmail.com> wrote:
> Il giorno mer, 31/05/2006 alle 10.39 +1000, Rob Garth ha scritto:
> > A generic install of FC5 requires hundreds of megs of patches once
> > installed, a particular frustration of mine, and I am sure it  doesn't
> > leave a good taste in the mouth of people trying out Fedora for the
> > first time.
>
> Just last week i had the occasion to try out the Fedora Unity Re-Spin of
> FC5 for the i386 architecture [1]. {yes, i am a curious chimp}.
>
> It was downloaded fast, nearly as a regular FC torrent.
>
> The ISO was build on 23rd of May and announced around the 31st of the
> same month. But still, after a clean install, workstation + software
> develpment profile kind of installation, i had to install 227MB of
> updates.
>
> So for a home 56k user it still is useless, while for an *DSL one
> between 227 or 400 there's no big difference, just a bunch of minutes.
>
> Also, the 6 months release cicle is quite fast, so I don't feel this
> urge of re-mastered ISO. Maybe we should look (instead) to something
> near "patch.rpm" ... like the old SUSE way of distribution of core and
> security updates, to decrease the amount of bandwidht needed to run a
> (up 2 date) Linux box.
>
>         Ciao,
>                 -nicola
>
> [1] http://fedoraunity.org/news-archives/unity-respin5-20060523
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