On Mon, 2006-05-15 at 18:19 +0200, houghi wrote:
On Mon, May 15, 2006 at 03:54:01PM +0200, jdd wrote:
* as I said, send 1 source dvd for 10 boxes to dealers or at least brokers. cheap and at hand for the user.
1 in 10? Also these then need to be sold and thus packaged and so on. Either you include them, or you don't. Just having then lying around people would walk in and use them as coasters.
* ask dealers to download the source dvd for a small fee
That you can always do. Wether they are willing to do so is another matter. Also many people irder online.
* direct users to the LUGs, most have power users that can make disks for friends (solution most used here)
Not realy an option for many people. Best way is to have a friend download it for you.
Still leaves the question if there should be an ISO with sources at all. I don't believe so. Some might use one or a few sourcescodes from selected programs, but not enough to warrant a full source ISO download.
The main exception is perhaps the kernel source. Put the in the boxed set and people with slow downloads already have that biggest part that they might need. People who are willing to download the ISO, also are able to download the files as is. The kernel sources used to compile the kernel is included even in the 5 iso set. I install it as routine because of VMware.
-- Ken Schneider UNIX since 1989, linux since 1994, SuSE since 1998