On Sat, 28 Sep 2002 03:54:59 +0500 "Angus Auld" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Greetings all, I want to upgrade from 8.2 to 9.0, and I want to know if > the standard edition from Mdk for $30 USD is the same as the download > edition, content wise? > > I can remember reading somewhere that in Mdk 8.2, there was a difference > in the content of the standard cd's from Mdk, and the download version. > That the download version actually was more complete. Was that just an > anomaly w/8.2? > > I really want to support Mdk, and $30 is certainly little enough to pay > for the cd's. I was wondering about the content though. I'm on a dialup, > and downloading large packages is a real pain. ;-) There's been quite a lot of discussion about this on [cooker]. I believe that the 'standard edition' is the download edition plus some commercial demos or similar; the last CD of the download edition is 150MB short because the demos were deliberately left out to save about 10 per cent of total bandwidth per download. I don't know what the demos are, but they could well be things like Hancom Office. >From what I've read 9.0 has been carefully set up so that the download edition and the 'standard edition' are interchangeable (less maintenance, and if urpmi asks for CD 2, you can use either CD 2 without confusion setting in). Apparently this was not the case with 8.2. Alastair
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