Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-factory (471 mails)

[Stephan Kulow <coolo@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Am Freitag 29 Mai 2009 schrieb Boyd Lynn Gerber:
> On Tue, 26 May 2009, Stephan Kulow wrote:
> > Am Dienstag 26 Mai 2009 schrieb Randall R Schulz:
> > > Anyway, Internet-based video delivery is becoming a reality. If the
> > > networking providers will get off their bums and start providing true
> > > high-speed Internet to the home, this will be no different than
> > > downloading a DVD is for someone with today's "high-speed" Internet.
> > >
> > > So perhaps it's a bit ahead of its time, but hopefully not much.
> >
> > Why would someone who uses internet based video delivery download a 25GB
> > medium with 90% software he never uses and wait for the download to
> > finish to start installation if he can do a network installation right
> > away and only download what he needs in the same video delivery speed?
>
> I download the entire ftp every OS release.  I installed 80 machine in the
> first 48 hours after the release.  It would have been next to impossible
> to do them without my entire Download.  I created 15 mirrors of my ftp to
> do all the installs.  I purcashed the 2 DVD boxed set.  I was really
> hoping it would continue.  I often have clients that do not have the
> internet acccess to do the installs.  Having the 2 DVD made my life a lot
> easier.  I had my clients purcashing them to do the installs.
>
> I really do not understand the attitude of why...  Then you ased about the
> 250 GB.  Well, I have the complete packman, openSUSE and sync daily my 250
> GB GB SUSE stuff.  So this attitude really upsets me.  There are those of
> us who attempt to make a living spreading the word and do infact have the
> complete available download.  I was doing it on my 1.5/1.o link.  I was
> really glad when I finally got a 4.0 MD download DSL.  Currently I have
> both DSK and Cable to be able to get everything in a more timely fashion.
> Some of use can not afford large downloads.  We never know what our
> clients are going to nedd.  So having it all makes our lives a lot easier.

Hi,

You're slightly offtopic. This subthread is about blu-ray and people using 
internet-base video delivery. I think your use case is very clear and has 
nothing to do with the discussed.

We could possible offer all of 11.2 tree as installation DVDs by means of 
torrents. I haven't yet looked into it, but I think it should be possible,
unfortunately it wouldn't be addon DVDs, but a complete new set. So you would 
need to choose if you download the normal installation DVD or the offline ftp 
tree.

Greetings, Stephan

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