Re: Distribution sizes

2013-10-10 Thread Orion Poplawski
On 10/10/2013 11:05 AM, Matthew Miller wrote: On Thu, Oct 10, 2013 at 10:52:47AM -0600, Chris Murphy wrote: I'd be nice to have a way to create a local caching "server" that's used by local clients automatically. If a requested package isn't available, the local server gets it from a remote mirr

Re: Distribution sizes

2013-10-10 Thread Matthew Miller
On Thu, Oct 10, 2013 at 10:52:47AM -0600, Chris Murphy wrote: > I'd be nice to have a way to create a local caching "server" that's used > by local clients automatically. If a requested package isn't available, > the local server gets it from a remote mirror, the client gets the > package, yet then

Re: Distribution sizes

2013-10-10 Thread Chris Murphy
On Oct 10, 2013, at 4:58 AM, Mateusz Marzantowicz wrote: > > Every single bit counts. Event if you have DVD, why should everyone > waste time and money for downloading or processing unnecessary data? > Ideally, there would be no DVDs at all, only netinstall images > containing anaconda. Then yo

Re: Distribution sizes

2013-10-10 Thread Mateusz Marzantowicz
On 09.10.2013 21:46, Chuck Forsberg WA7KGX wrote: > When operating system distributions had to fit on a spool of paper tape, > 144000 bytes was a limit to worry about. > > With DVD blanks selling for little more than the price of CD blanks, > is there a need to limit the size of Live disros to 700

Re: Distribution sizes

2013-10-09 Thread Peter Robinson
On Wed, Oct 9, 2013 at 8:46 PM, Chuck Forsberg WA7KGX wrote: > When operating system distributions had to fit on a spool of paper tape, > 144000 bytes was a limit to worry about. > > With DVD blanks selling for little more than the price of CD blanks, > is there a need to limit the size of Live di

Re: Distribution sizes

2013-10-09 Thread Adam Williamson
On Wed, 2013-10-09 at 12:46 -0700, Chuck Forsberg WA7KGX wrote: > When operating system distributions had to fit on a spool of paper tape, > 144000 bytes was a limit to worry about. > > With DVD blanks selling for little more than the price of CD blanks, > is there a need to limit the size of Live