Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-factory (322 mails)

[Bernhard Walle <bwalle@xxxxxxx>]

* Stephan Kulow <coolo@xxxxxxxxxx> [2007-07-09 13:57]:
> Am Sonntag 08 Juli 2007 schrieb Alberto Passalacqua:
> > Maybe CTAN usage statistics can help the decision. Someone thinks noone
> > uses LaTeX, but I think the numbers are interesting, considering it's a
> > specific tool:
> >
> > http://www.ctan.org/usage/ftp/usage_200706.html
> >
> > To give an idea, in June 2007:
> >
> > Total Hits: 1675377
> > Hits per Hour -    Avg: 2326 - Max: 14167
> > Visits per Day: Avg: 2799 - Max: 4359
> > KBytes per Day: Avg: 54182838 - Max: 95443318
> >
> Yeah, and most of these KBytes are spent by people downloading it for windows 
> and MacOSX. 

Yes, because Linux users download it from their distribution.

> And the question here is not if we make it impossible to use LaTeX for 
> opensuse users. We discuss here if it takes a download or not to install it.
> And I don't think today's LaTeX users have a huge problem downloading it.
> Just as all these windows and MacOS users haven't.

So why do we make a DVD at all? Just one CD for the installation and
the rest can be downloaded from FTP. At least it should be on the
DVD9. Or what's the point of buying the box if the user has do
download all via FTP?


Thanks,
   Bernhard
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