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That is simple, does not require new software and +</I>><i> > is easy to put in place. If Mageia wants to go further, it +</I>><i> > might be a good step to learn from (how much is it used, what +</I>><i> > has a tendency to go wrong, do people have difficutlies ...) +</I>><i> > and base furthers steps upon. +</I>><i> > +</I>><i> > Re risk - updates have a certain risk that an update introduces +</I>><i> > problems, you cant get away from that, however the packages are +</I>><i> > distributed. +</I>><i> > +</I>><i> > One thought based on dealing with risks and being selective with +</I>><i> > introducing updates: how about adding to a DVD with update +</I>><i> > packages also a structure (plain file ?) with the +</I>><i> > corresonponding security advisories? This entire discusion is +</I>><i> > on making life easy for users with bad connectivity - they +</I>><i> > might like to avoid fetching advisories over the net also. +</I>><i> > +</I>><i> > But I really think that some learning is necessary. How many +</I>><i> > users will need such a facility? how much investment is +</I>><i> > justified in creating the facility? +</I>><i> > +</I>><i> +</I>><i> I think it's more of how much have people become accustomed to +</I>><i> having their dial-up connections tied up for hours for an ISO +</I>><i> download and then updates. +</I>><i> +</I>><i> I am on two projects, Mageia and LibreOffice, and on both I have +</I>><i> read from people who were hoping to be heard that they only have +</I>><i> dial-up and could this please be considered. I think that dial-up +</I>><i> connections are more prevalent than we think. We "high speed" +</I>><i> internet users seem to lose sight that some of our market targets +</I>><i> are dial-up service members. +</I>><i> +</I>><i> I don't know if they would use any of these services. They may +</I>><i> have become so accustomed to tying up their phone lines for long +</I>><i> periods of time, that they may not even care any more even if +</I>><i> Community services were available. It may mean a matter of their +</I>><i> local Mageia Community advertising the fact that these service +</I>><i> are available. +</I>><i> +</I>><i> Marc +</I>><i> +</I> +It's not just dial-up - many people in the UK only have mobile +broadband, which is very expensive if you exceed the minimal +bandwidth allowance (for some contracts, only 1GB a month). For some +of those people, downloading a DVD-sized ISO would be impossible. + +-- +Margot +~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ +**Otford Ducks Computers** +We teach, you learn... +...and, if you don't do your homework, we set the cat on you! +~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ +</PRE> + + + + +<!--endarticle--> + <HR> + <P><UL> + <!--threads--> + <LI>Previous message: <A HREF="002934.html">[Mageia-discuss] Suggestions for the ISO +</A></li> + <LI>Next message: <A HREF="002927.html">[Mageia-discuss] Suggestions for the ISO +</A></li> + <LI> <B>Messages sorted by:</B> + <a href="date.html#2926">[ date ]</a> + <a href="thread.html#2926">[ thread ]</a> + <a href="subject.html#2926">[ subject ]</a> + <a href="author.html#2926">[ author ]</a> + </LI> + </UL> + +<hr> +<a href="https://www.mageia.org/mailman/listinfo/mageia-discuss">More information about the Mageia-discuss +mailing list</a><br> +</body></html> |