Re: [indiana-discuss] new ISO soon?

[Gilles Gravier]

Title: E-mail Signature Sun 2006

It's more a question of offering something that evolves also in term of installer for the users... Just like during pre-release, Ubuntu had multiple alpha releases available as ISOs... and now, after comming out with 8.04, they are about to release 8.04.1 ISOs. Of course, you can always install the old... and update once running. But new ISOs have the merit of fixing installation bugs, for example (e.g. partitionner that has a problem when there is a pre-existing partifion over 4GB) which hit me when trying to install on my EeePC 900 and prevented me from even reaching a 2008.05 running system. So, I think new ISOs are a GOOD thing. And we actually should have them regularly, in addition to the repository updates. Just like every other modern distro out there. Gilles. Will Murnane wrote: On Thu, Jul 3, 2008 at 12:05, Dennis Clarke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: doesn't this achieve the same effect ? Not exactly, for this reason: XFER (MB) 1334.65/1334.65 Downloading 1.3 gigabytes of updates isn't a problem for me, but for users with unstable or slow internet connections, it is. Not to mention, if you have more than one machine, you need to download the updates on each individually (unless ofc I'm missing something). so .. why drop another ISO if the process works as expected ? Downloading things once instead of many times is nice. With Debian, I can set up a local package proxy and fetch things only once, but I don't think there's anything like that for OpenSolaris yet. A general proxy like Squid would probably work, but compared to the ease of apt-cacher or approx it's a little trickier to deal with. Will _______________________________________________ indiana-discuss mailing list indiana-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/indiana-discuss --   Gilles Gravier, CISSP Chief Open Source Ambassador EMEA Voice : +41 (22) 999 9051 Mobile : +41 (79) 472 8437 Fax : +41 (860) 79 472 8437 E-mail : [EMAIL PROTECTED]   Sun Microsystems 12 route des Avouillons CH-1196 Gland Switzerland http://www.sun.com/security/ SunIM : [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ : 77488526 AIM : gillesgravier Y! : ggravier Jabber : [EMAIL PROTECTED]/Gaim Skype : ggravier MSN : [EMAIL PROTECTED] Google : [EMAIL PROTECTED] This mail was sent through Sun EdgeMail using Mozilla Thunderbird

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