On Tue, 2005-05-31 at 10:54 -0500, Steve Kratz wrote:
because of SuSE's silly dual-layer DVDs. The webserver's a tiny 1U rackmount, and has a laptop DVD drive in it. Of course, it's one of the ones that won't read DL discs.
ie. it is broken.
Blaming SuSE for having faulty hardware doesn't seem that sensible to me.
mfg Nik
The hardware isn't faulty - Distributing Linux on a media set that requires brand new hardware is a little bit of a flakey idea, in my opinion.
Is there really any huge reason to not have a 32-bit DVD and a 64-bit DVD like 99% of the other major distros? All it is, IMO is an inconvenience.
Couple in the fact that dual layer DVD's cost much more (perhaps ten times more) you would think that even with added production costs the over all cost would be less. -- Ken Schneider UNIX since 1989, linux since 1994, SuSE since 1998 "The day Microsoft makes something that doesn't suck is probably the day they start making vacuum cleaners." -Ernst Jan Plugge