Graham Anderson wrote:
List,
Coolo's recent reports regarding the growing size of our installation media highlight one area where there appears to be no obvious technical solution. We are simply running out of room to squeeze bits into the common capacity optical media that our users are accustom to, namely the CDROM capacity. The pressing concern of this would appear that by increasing the image size for installation via USB fobs or DVD, we might alienate existing or future users that simply cannot easily download an image of growing size.
Excellent summing up.
I wonder if we can perhaps fall back to more low-tech methods to help in this regard.
If we are contemplating a change, why not take the opportunity and write up the matrix of media and consumer attributes, hopefully thereby identifying what holes/mismatches we have (if any)?
We have a network of user groups, ambassadors and such like. I wonder if we could instigate a program of distribution whereby our users can volunteer to physically burn to disc our latest and then use the relatively cheap national postal services to send the media to our users with low bandwidth connections.
If it were in my country of residence, I would be happy to help, but let's (see if we can) identify the _actual_ need for such a scheme first. [snip]
It's not a perfect solution by any means, but I can't think that our increasing need for more space will allow us to use CDROM size media in future.
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