What is the fascination with 'spins'

[Kevin DeKorte]

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Jesse Keating wrote:
> On Monday 05 February 2007 11:01, James Hubbard wrote:
>> Two DVDs sounds like a lot.  I would prefer 1 DVD.  However, I believe
>> that I thought the same thing when RedHat went to more than 1 CD.
>> (When did that happen?)
>>
>> When I put everything in quotes, I don't mean that all of the packages
>> have to go onto the DVD.  I don't know what would go in and what would
>> stay out though.
> 
> Heh, that's the game we're trying to play here, figure out what goes on and 
> what doesn't.  Plus there are countries where DVD hardware/media is still 
> vastly more expensive so you have to consider the CD count too, 8 CDs 
> anybody?  Mirrors would strangle me if I asked them to mirror 8 CDs, 2 DVDs * 
> 3 arches.
> 
> 

Jesse,

That is a tough call as to what to keep, but I do think that the stuff
that was in core is a good place to start for an "everything" CD.

However, I come from the other side of this. I want a single CD
(preferred)/DVD where I can boot it and it will help me setup and
install, but download all the packages I selected directly off the net
if they are updated or off the media if they are not, perhaps this is
what the live CD does and if so, great. Nothing more annoying to me,
than to install a new OS and then download 500+MB of patches. Why
couldn't it just get the current stuff to begin with? Normally when I
install Fedora, I don't select anything optional to install [desktop
apps (ie OO), dev tools, etc] and then after I am up and running I start
installing those items off the net.  But I come from a POV where
bandwidth is unlimited and fast.

Kevin

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