Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-marketing (130 mails)

[Andreas Jaeger <aj@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Thursday 08 April 2010 04:13:19 Satoru Matsumoto wrote:
> -------- Original Message  --------
> Subject: Re: [opensuse-marketing] OpenSUSE DVD's
> From: Andreas Jaeger <aj@xxxxxxxxxx>
> To: opensuse-marketing@xxxxxxxxxxxx
> Date: Tue Apr 06 2010 21:07:30 GMT+0900 (JST)
>
> > On Sunday 04 April 2010 19:52:53 Manu Gupta wrote:
> > > I am Manu Gupta, doing my engineering Manipal Institute Of Technology,
> > > Karnataka, India. I am a part of LUG over here and every year around
> > > mid august we organize linux install fests. I was hoping as the
> > > scheduled release date for openSUSE 11.3 is 15th July, 2010, can I get
> > > around 50 DVDs of the same. During this time, we have our new session
> > > beginning and we have around 100 freshmen attending our install fest.
> >
> > I hope we have them at that time, please ask back once we announce
> > availabilty of 11.3 media,
>
> This topic is about Promo DVD, isn't it?
>
> One thing I'm wondering is, why iso image of the Promo DVD is available
> only for Novell persons?
>
> Note: Prome DVD is different from Install DVDs, of which images are
>       available for everyone.
>
> If we can download the iso image directly, we can burn Promo DVDs by
> ourselves, when we need small amount of DVDs.

Michl, could you give some details, please?

> Of course officially produced Promo DVDs look better than hand-made
> DVDs, but when we need only 10 DVDs, downloading iso and burning DVDs by
> ourselves might be a reasonable option.
>
> In addition, since only limited languages are available on Promo DVD, it
> would be helpful if we can get kiwi settings for Promo DVD, so that we
> can replace packages as needed and make customized Promo DVDs by ourselves.
>
> Imagine, if a Japanese user who is not used to Linux get Promo DVD at an
> event and try to use it in Live mode, she may feel disappointed because
> she can't handle Japanese with it. :-(

Andreas
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