Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (3964 mails)

[Anders Johansson <andjoh@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Friday 19 November 2004 19:23, Barry Premeaux wrote:
> On Fri, 19 Nov 2004 09:57:35 -0500, Jerry Feldman <gerald.feldman@xxxxxx> 
wrote:
> > Moving forward, we are at a similar point to where CDs were replacing
> > floppies. One of the reasons I have always preferred SuSE over Red Hat,
> > Mandrake and other media distros is that just about everything is
> > included. But, in SuSE 9.2, the system lacks some packages on the CDs and
> > the multi-layered DVD may not be readable on all DVD readers.
>
> Considering the recent price increase, would it have cost that much to
> add a 6th CD to cover the additional Packages?  I think that would be
> cheaper than putting in a new DVD reader on some of these older
> machines (like mine).

There are around 1.5GB of packages on the DVD that aren't on the CDs (not 
counting the x86_64 stuff and sources). I think it would have to be 3 CDs to 
cover it