Jerry, On Friday 19 November 2004 06:57, Jerry Feldman wrote:
Moving forward, we are at a similar point to where CDs were replacing floppies. One of the reasons I have always preferred SuSE over Red Hat, Mandrake and other media distros is that just about everything is included. But, in SuSE 9.2, the system lacks some packages on the CDs and the multi-layered DVD may not be readable on all DVD readers.
I would propose that SuSE make available through YOU or some other means a supplemental set of packages for CD users available when the media is released. I would propose that SuSE continue to provide the 2 DVDs that they now provide, but they could reduce the number of CDs, and provide some of the lower priority packages online so that customers who do not have access to the DVDs can obtain these packages.
I wonder if a 32-bit / 64-bit distinction might be better. Presumably separating releases on that basis would not increase costs for Novell too much but the binary portions of each release would be roughly half the size. There'd be no issue about fitting everything on five CDs and perhaps a single-layer DVD would be sufficient. I wonder, too, why the dual-sided DVD from the 9.1 release was replaced with two single-sided DVDs?
In my personal case, I was able to solve the problem by grabbing the appropriate bits from other sources. -- Jerry Feldman
Randall Schulz