No more OOo in UNR 10.04
sktsee
sktsee at tulsaconnect.com
Sun Feb 7 23:39:17 UTC 2010
On Sun, 07 Feb 2010 14:48:44 -0800, NoOp wrote:
> On 02/07/2010 01:33 PM, Chris Jones wrote:
>>
>>
>>>> We've long since moved away from "everything needs to fit on a
>>>> floppy", maybe its time to move from CDs to DVDs...
>>>
>>> CD's are still a lot cheaper to distribute, so it's a cost saver for
>>> Canonical as well.
>>
>> Really ? Blanks DVDs are just about the same price round here as CDs.
>>
>> They could for instance keep the "alternate" CD for the few cases where
>> DVDs cannot be used, but switch the main installation media to DVDs. At
>> least, thats what I would consider doing.
>
> I've 9 machines currently... out of those only 4 have DVD reader drives.
> 7 however do have floppy drives.
>
> Downloading a 3.9G DVD iso over a 1.5M DSL line is no picnic & pretty
> much impossible via dialup.
Firefox estimates 3 days 19 hours for the karmic dvd, which is not as
long as I thought would be. :)
--
sktee
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