True but its inevitable if you actually intend to stay up to date. SuSE 7.2 as I just checked is already down to being outdated before it ships in the US. The entire KDE2 path of 7.2 already has updates out there: ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/i386/KDE2/update_for_7.2/ So if users end up downloading the stuff anyhow why bother printing CDs....I don't see how the printing of CDs keeps users from having to download the packages if they intend to administer their boxes with some dedication. Usually a Linux install is around 1.5GB. The /opt/kde2 tree alone is 180 MB. That is ten percent of the install. Besides the fact that I could not survive on a 56k line (having used broadband for 3 years now) and I'd rather live without net access then I would seek a place (work or friends or local college) which does have a fast connection and use a external drive to get access to the online packages. mk
From: "Bryan S. Tyson" <bryantyson@earthlink.net> Reply-To: bryantyson@earthlink.net To: suse-linux-e@suse.com Subject: Re: [SLE] New suse 7.2 Date: Tue, 12 Jun 2001 09:44:57 -0400
On Tue, 12 Jun 2001, Purple Shirt wrote:
If you ask me they should still drop this whole boxed set sale thing. I feel like I am in the 80s where you had to purchase your software in a box because there was no net. I don't want the manuals and especially not multiple copies of it. If they updated their distro in an online fashion there was no argument of the timing of the releases because you grab whenever you feel like it. And you buy your books separate whenever you need them.
I agree with the first part of the message (not quoted above).
Regarding the portion quoted above, you are not being realistic. Broadband has not achieved anywhere near enough penetration among average home users. As long as most people are on dialup connections, downloading distros is not practical.
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