On Tue, 2 Jun 2009, Stephan Kulow wrote:
Am Freitag 29 Mai 2009 schrieb Boyd Lynn Gerber:
On Tue, 26 May 2009, Stephan Kulow 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.
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?
I download the entire ftp every OS release. I installed 80 machine in the first 48 hours after the release. It would have been next to impossible to do them without my entire Download. I created 15 mirrors of my ftp to do all the installs. I purcashed the 2 DVD boxed set. I was really hoping it would continue. I often have clients that do not have the internet acccess to do the installs. Having the 2 DVD made my life a lot easier. I had my clients purcashing them to do the installs.
I really do not understand the attitude of why... Then you ased about the 250 GB. Well, I have the complete packman, openSUSE and sync daily my 250 GB GB SUSE stuff. So this attitude really upsets me. There are those of us who attempt to make a living spreading the word and do infact have the complete available download. I was doing it on my 1.5/1.o link. I was really glad when I finally got a 4.0 MD download DSL. Currently I have both DSK and Cable to be able to get everything in a more timely fashion. Some of use can not afford large downloads. We never know what our clients are going to nedd. So having it all makes our lives a lot easier.
You're slightly offtopic. This subthread is about blu-ray and people using internet-base video delivery. I think your use case is very clear and has nothing to do with the discussed.
I think blu-ray would enable us that do a lot of installs to use them. After all blu-ray does hold a lot more. It would/could be used to install the many various different installs that need just a few of the files, but are so different for each installation.
We could possible offer all of 11.2 tree as installation DVDs by means of torrents. I haven't yet looked into it, but I think it should be possible, unfortunately it wouldn't be addon DVDs, but a complete new set. So you would need to choose if you download the normal installation DVD or the offline ftp tree.
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