[Mageia-discuss] Suggestions for the ISO

Sat Nov 6 10:08:34 CET 2010

On Fri, 05 Nov 2010 16:35:06 -0400
+Marc Paré <marc at marcpare.com> wrote:
+
+> Le 2010-11-05 10:01, Juergen Harms a écrit :
+> > On 11/05/2010 06:55 AM, andre999 wrote:
+> >> I would make all delta updates relative to the distro release,
+> >> i.e.
+> >> - main = foo-1
+> >> - upd_full = foo-2, foo-3, foo-4, etc
+> >
+> > I have a feeling that just distributing snapshots of the update
+> > repositories (they are relative the release) is a wise thing to
+> > start with. That is simple, does not require new software and
+> > is easy to put in place. If Mageia wants to go further, it
+> > might be a good step to learn from (how much is it used, what
+> > has a tendency to go wrong, do people have difficutlies ...)
+> > and base furthers steps upon.
+> >
+> > Re risk - updates have a certain risk that an update introduces
+> > problems, you cant get away from that, however the packages are
+> > distributed.
+> >
+> > One thought based on dealing with risks and being selective with
+> > introducing updates: how about adding to a DVD with update
+> > packages also a structure (plain file ?) with the
+> > corresonponding security advisories? This entire discusion is
+> > on making life easy for users with bad connectivity - they
+> > might like to avoid fetching advisories over the net also.
+> >
+> > But I really think that some learning is necessary. How many
+> > users will need such a facility? how much investment is
+> > justified in creating the facility?
+> >
+> 
+> I think it's more of how much have people become accustomed to
+> having their dial-up connections tied up for hours for an ISO
+> download and then updates.
+> 
+> I am on two projects, Mageia and LibreOffice, and on both I have
+> read from people who were hoping to be heard that they only have
+> dial-up and could this please be considered. I think that dial-up
+> connections are more prevalent than we think. We "high speed"
+> internet users seem to lose sight that some of our market targets
+> are dial-up service members.
+> 
+> I don't know if they would use any of these services. They may
+> have become so accustomed to tying up their phone lines for long
+> periods of time, that they may not even care any more even if
+> Community services were available. It may mean a matter of their
+> local Mageia Community advertising the fact that these service
+> are available.
+> 
+> Marc
+> 
+
+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
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