On Tue, 2004-03-16 at 20:18 -0800, Joel Jaeggli wrote: > On Tue, 16 Mar 2004, David Nedrow wrote: > > > Going forward, are there any plans to provide a downloadable DVD-ROM > > image in addition to the CD-ROM images? > > > > Since DVD-ROM drives are ubiquitous now and the Red Hat and now Fedora > > distributions have become increasingly, ummmm, "beefy", being able to > > install from a DVD-ROM disc is incredibly convenient. > > > > I know it's reasonably easy to build an image myself (and I do), but I > > think it would be great to have a pre-built, official image for users > > who may not want to roll their own. > > It takes a silly long time to download a dvd iso over your average home > broadband connection. Longer than downloading 4 cdrom iso's with equivalent data? Besides - it wouldn't only benefit home downloaders, but LUG's and others who distribute Linux (GNU/Linux or other ;) distributions on burned media. I actually prefer to get my distro's from places that download images and burn them - saves bandwidth for the mirrors, which are always clogged near time of fresh release.
