[Mageia-dev] Mageia 3 final set of isos

Thu Sep 20 13:42:26 CEST 2012

On 20 September 2012 12:13, Wolfgang Bornath <molch.b at googlemail.com> wrote:
+> 2012/9/20 Anne Wilson <annew at kde.org>:
+>> On 20/09/12 11:19, Wolfgang Bornath wrote:
+>>>
+>>> This is the reason why over here nobody thinks of abandoning the
+>>> cover media. Quite to the opposite as I learned from a conversation
+>>> with a chief editor earlier this year. Cover media are very popular
+>>> because they cater to the needs of people with slow net access.
+>>
+>> Yes, I suspect that this need will be very variable, geographically.
+>
+> Says a resident in the UK with superfast internet for everybody. :)
+>
+
+While I don't buy magazines as *I* can download any of the iso easily
+at uni, if I am away and wanted the disks then it would be something
+that would greatly appeal to me.
+The statement that the uk has superfast internet for all isn't
+accurate, at the present the uk still contains Scotland.
+
+>> Something apparently for nothing is always attractive to many, but the
+>> eco lobby is becoming increasingly important.  I'm not advocating
+>> dropping the media disks for now, just being aware that the situation
+>> needs to be watched for the future.
+>
+> Well, for computer magazines it's not "for nothing". The popular
+> magazines are coming in 2 flavors, one with cover media, the other
+> without. Guess which is cheaper.
+>
+>> Irrelevant to this discussion, but I feel increasingly guilty about
+>> disposing of frequent "bumper *buntu distro" disks.  Since I subscribe
+>> the several magazines they have been coming in threes.  That's a lot
+>> of disks in a year.
+>
+> That is the reason I stopped subscribing years ago. I only buy a
+> magazine if I am interested in an article or I want the cover media.
+> So I don't feel guilty.
+>
+> Anyhow, I don't think that this part of the discussion even has an
+> impact on cover media. As long as we have a live DVD or CD (with
+> German language) the German magazines will get what they need (this
+> goes for all other countries as well).
+>
+> --
+> wobo
+
+Shipping a pure free flavour is appealing, however, I feel that it
+doesn't warrent a disk by itself, perhaps an option to not install non
+free software on the dvd.
+
+The number of live cds does need to be minimized, I also agree with
+the proposal to have 4, 2 Gnome, 2 for KDE. The other environments
+could surely be done by the *community* and therefore be onofficial
+and not require the full qa.
+