Edgy on DVD only ?

[Derek Broughton]

Scott wrote:

> I'm a little late (as usual) but I wanted to offer my $.02 (not that
> anyone will notice at this point).
> 
> 
> On 05/11/2006 11:57 PM, * Jeff Waugh spake thusly:
>> 
>> I strongly suspect that we'll regard DVDs as sufficiently widespread by
>> the time we feel enough pressure to 'go large'.
> 
> Are you referring to DVD±R/RW drives or just DVD drives?
> 
> In the case of the latter.  I first got one in a computer back in 1999
> and I believe they had been around for a year or so at that time.
> 
> In the case of DVD±R/RW drives, Haven't they been around for about 5
> years now?.
> 
> I'd think in another year it would make sense.   More and more Windows
> software is coming out on DVD.  SUSE has been distributing DVD versions
> of their retail software for the past 2-3 years I believe.
> 
> When I first tried Fedora Core (Fedora Core 2 at the time) they had it
> on DVD as well.
> 
>> 
>> There's still room to move on the CD -- hard choices to make to get it,
>> but it's there.
> 
> I'm really surprised Linux in general is so slow to move to better
> compression methods. Gzip is the most popular (why I don't know) and
> offers the least compression.  bzip2 is better (and comes with every
> Linux distro I'm aware of) and yet isn't as widely used as gzip.

gzip is compatible with windows .zip files, right?  _Windows_ users don't
have access to bzip2.  Much Linux-only stuff is available as bzip2.
-- 
derek