Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-project (441 mails)

["Carlos E. R." <robin.listas@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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Daniel Mader wrote:
> On Wednesday 11 March 2009 22:22:49 jdd wrote:
> > Carlos E. R. a écrit :
> > > it is a list of which dvd media is reliable and which isn't.
> > I tried many media types, with no difference. This time all the faulty
> > dvd come from the same writer, probably at end of life (I use three
> > writers on three computers)
> >
> > jdd
>
> I would confirm this: the quality of burnt media not only depends on the disc 
> but also on the combination of burner *and* reader. This is not reliable 
> enough.

That's right, but there are media that are generally good, and others that are 
generally bad.

> Yet, I wonder why we still cling to DVDs at all: why not put a bootable 4GB 
> USB pen drive in the folder/box? Or a bigger drive which also contains the 
> ISO? DVDs or CDs should be delivered only via download, imho.

For backups or for the distro release?

For the distro, a flash disk is still more expensive, they are slower to write 
than a dvd burner
(and much, much slower, and more expensive, than a DVD "printer"), many 
computers out there will not
boot from a dvd...

For backups, a flash disk is of unknown reliability, ie, we don't know how many 
years the data
survives (I mean, I, Joe User do not know), they are slow to write, and more 
expensive than a DVD.
However, they can be reused.

For backups, you can use real hard-disks via USB. That's just what I do.


Distributing the DVD media is handy, but perhaps they should do it without a 
box. Dunno.
I wonder how difficult would be to do a re-release the same way it is done for 
factory :-?

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Cheers / Saludos,

                Carlos E. R.
                (from 11.1-ex-factory)
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