> I happily and dutifully purchase each CD-ROM release. > > Many of us receive these CDs prior to the official release date. > > It is my understanding/experience that many of the binary packages are not > available on the CD, and I must wait for them to be released, and then copy > them down to my local install server. If "early access" to the new release is > an intended benefit of the CDs, (which it may not be, I don't know), then I > for one, am not able to realize this benefit, because I need a lot of packages > that are not included on the CD. I then contribute to "server overload" right > after the release date, to ftp all these packages. > > Here is an idea for an additional release media product: > > DVD-ROM, including complete release and packages for i386 and amd64, and > source
This will be a lot more work for me to make. > I would happily pay more for this product than I currently do for the CDs. And others might not. I don't know if it will offset. > Possibly the reduction from 3 CDs to 1 DVD might reduce packaging and might be > considered more "green". Having all the packages would keep people like me > from > having to download these packages over the Internet, saving bandwidth charges > for those hosting public access. I have also not yet invested the time into making 4 architectures boot off 2 media.
