[CentOS-promo] DVD Media / Any needed before 6.3 release?

[Andreas Rogge]

If I understand it correctly the next Event planned is LinuxTag in 
Berlin starting May 23rd to 26th, but there's nothing committed yet.

Do we have any Events where we are committed that take place before 6.3 
will be released?
How many disks do you think we will need for that?

During FOSDEM we gave away around 140 disks. Would've probably been 
more, but we *always* ran out of stock (I haven't had any idea how many 
people wanted DVDs)

I haven't had time to do the inventory yet, but I guess it was almost 
equal share between the x86_64 Live, i386 Install and x86_64 Install. I 
was surprised how many people actually took the i386 install DVDs.


I talked to Karanbir concerning merging multiple Images onto a 
Double-Layer DVD. From what I heard right now that's not a good idea. 
Someone doing professional disk duplication told me that they have a 
significant (i.e. >20%) amount of degraded disks when they produce DL-DVDs.
As DL is just a few cents cheaper than producing three single-layer 
disks it doesn't make sense if burning fails that often.

So for now, I don't propose to do a DL DVD anymore.

However, I do propose to merge x86_64 and i386 Live DVDs. They will both 
fit onto a single-layer DVD.
That would bring us from 4 different Images down to three.

In fact we could try to do what Fedora did. They're able to autodetect 
32-bit/64-bit and boot the appropriate Live Image. As that happens 
inside the bootloader we should be able to reproduce it.

If it is appreciated, I'd give it a try.

Regards,
Andreas

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