cobaco (aka Bart Cornelis) dijo [Wed, Mar 19, 2008 at 09:28:03AM +0100]: > > BTW... 30 CDs are too many CDs. Just too fucking many. We could also > > cut down on them - i.e. produce only the first 8 CDs per arch, and > > have the rest only as DVDs. Yes, many people still do not have DVD > > drives handy, but then again, 8 CDs + network access + a bit of > > patience for the most obscure bits of software should be enough for > > anybody... > > that assumes network access, which might be a reasonable assumption in the > West, but that's not true everywhere (e.g. rural parts of India, Cuba, or > most of Africa). In which case ordering a CD-set is way more practical > (these also tend to be the places where they have older second hand pc's > without a DVD-drive)
Agree - But for every architecture? How many mipsel machines are there in rural India where no nearby computer has a DVD drive? :) > > Ugh. Do you really want ISPs all over the world to start associating > > Debian with evil communist pirate P2P filesharers? > > er, you do realise torrent is used for way more then that right? > (for example there's now a scandinavian telivision station that's starting > to distribute shows through bittorrent, we also already have debtorrent) I do know, and I do think the idea is a darn good one. Several ISPs, however, only see you are sharing via P2P - and might charge you extra or disconnect you. Greetings, -- Gunnar Wolf - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - (+52-55)5623-0154 / 1451-2244 PGP key 1024D/8BB527AF 2001-10-23 Fingerprint: 0C79 D2D1 2C4E 9CE4 5973 F800 D80E F35A 8BB5 27AF -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
