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Re: [opensuse] Sources iso
- From: Per Jessen <per@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 15 May 2006 11:59:52 +0200
- Message-id: <e49jeo$eu5$1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
houghi wrote:
> In numbers, the amount of people who have dialup is prety large.
In absolute numbers yes, but in relative, I wonder if not most people
have or are moving to ADSL? Many countries have 95% or better
coverage, and the cost is now _almost_ negligible. (the cheapest here
is CHF9/month plus CHF2.40/hour).
> I hope we don't go the way some websites think: but 90% uses IE, so we
> don't chane it. ;-)
Yeah ... though I'm not sure it makes much commercial sense to produce
a source DVD for the probably very few that 1) have a need and 2) are
still on e.g. 28.8K analog dial-up.
> As it is just for those who can not download large files, putting it
> on the DVD-9 is enough. No reason to put it on a downloadable ISO as
> that would beat the purpose.
For download, I think it makes perfect sense to keep both an ISO and the
individual files.
/Per Jessen, Zürich
> In numbers, the amount of people who have dialup is prety large.
In absolute numbers yes, but in relative, I wonder if not most people
have or are moving to ADSL? Many countries have 95% or better
coverage, and the cost is now _almost_ negligible. (the cheapest here
is CHF9/month plus CHF2.40/hour).
> I hope we don't go the way some websites think: but 90% uses IE, so we
> don't chane it. ;-)
Yeah ... though I'm not sure it makes much commercial sense to produce
a source DVD for the probably very few that 1) have a need and 2) are
still on e.g. 28.8K analog dial-up.
> As it is just for those who can not download large files, putting it
> on the DVD-9 is enough. No reason to put it on a downloadable ISO as
> that would beat the purpose.
For download, I think it makes perfect sense to keep both an ISO and the
individual files.
/Per Jessen, Zürich
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