-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 The Friday 2008-09-26 at 17:27 -0500, Bryen wrote:
My propossal too.
- There is one disk with only oss software, so it is redistributable. - There is another disk (add-on disk) with only non-oss softwre, so it is not redistributable.
That's only good for those of us who are aware and know to get the second media. Meanwhile, go over to the #suse irc channel and witness that there is so much confusion amongst newcomers about what they need to add in order to make things work, i.e., graphics drivers, codecs, etc. Now they also need to get a second medium? No, I'm not in favor of increasing the hurdles new users have to jump over in order to try out openSUSE.
Yes, you may be right. But the original proposal, to remove the non-oss parts from the dvd, forcing to download them, is not good either. With my idea, you can: - download only the "main" dvd, containing only oss software. - choose: - add the non-oss repo - add the non-oss disk - do not add any of them. Three possibilities. Forcing to download more packages during the install, from the repo, makes installation slower, and much more difficult if you don't have broad band. I do have broadband, yes... but it is only 1 Mbit/second. Acrobat has 37 Mb, meaning at least 370 seconds to download. Six minutes more during installation time. Ok, six minutes is not much... but each install cycle I have more packages to download. One more, and one more, and one more... - -- Cheers, Carlos E. R. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.9 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAkjdZl8ACgkQtTMYHG2NR9UfrQCfXCGBwvbo6TT/fjMBnsqJNqxP BFMAoJNKInzgaONO1wqAFpEAa93BBdmU =xdJ+ -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-factory+help@opensuse.org