I've already been trying to build a disc using Studio so that I can load machines that aren't networked here. Internet access in the Las Vegas Valley can mysteriously disappear for the strangest of reasons for extended periods. While I normally load boxen with the network installer, I try to have a standard toolkit ready if needed if network access is gone. Things I routinely use aren't found on the DVD but my use pattern is hardly regular. The only reason I could see for putting anything on Blu-Ray disc would be for establishing local mirrors in places like American Samoa. I left American Samoa in March 2007. The island's access to the outside world is restricted to the equivalent of a single T-1 line. Dial-up is fairly common and while that is great for using Lynx to browse the web, it is not cool for downloading packages. Routinely pushing a stack of discs via the US Postal Service there, since carriers like UPS and FedEx let alone DHL don't serve there, would allow mirror maintenance. For deciding what to put on the DVD, the question that must be asked is what the profile of the average openSUSE user is. Excess documentation, fonts, and tools should be moved to download only. SMK ______________________________________________ Stephen Michael Kellat, MSLS Interim Coordinator, LISNews Netcast Network http://www.lisnews.org/podcast http://erielookingproductions.info http://twitter.com/alpacaherder http://identi.ca/alpacaherder Greg Freemyer wrote:
On Tue, May 26, 2009 at 10:09 AM, Stephan Kulow <coolo@novell.com> wrote:
Am Dienstag 26 Mai 2009 schrieb Randall R Schulz:
Anyway, Internet-based video delivery is becoming a reality. If the networking providers will get off their bums and start providing true high-speed Internet to the home, this will be no different than downloading a DVD is for someone with today's "high-speed" Internet.
So perhaps it's a bit ahead of its time, but hopefully not much. Why would someone who uses internet based video delivery download a 25GB medium with 90% software he never uses and wait for the download to finish to start installation if he can do a network installation right away and only download what he needs in the same video delivery speed?
Greetings, Stephan
There are a surprising number of labs, etc. which have zero internet connectivity.
They would need to download the ISO containing everything they will need, then burn the disks and sneaker net it over to the restricted part of there operation.
I don't know if any of those people need a full 100% functional release, but I do think the day will come when a blue ray iso will make sense.
FYI: we do have machines that function that way, but we now boot them off of a custom studio boot CD. So for our lab, we are doing fine. And thank you to the suse-studio folks!
That actually brings up a relevant idea. Can a studio CD/DVD be used to install from? Upgrade from? If so, even the people trying to install opensuse without internet access could use the studio to build a custom boot cd / dvd with just their needs represented.
Greg
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