On Wed, Oct 7, 2009 at 11:23 PM, ML <mailinglists at mailnewsrss.com> wrote: > HI All, > > It seems that the days of ordering burned CD's of distros has faded. > People just have fast internet now. I recall a number of times that I > ordered Slackware CD's or others because it was just easier than > downloading and burning myself. I am actually planning on ordering > CentOS 5.4 media when available to support the project. Fast internet connections certainly helped, but in many cases, we don't even need physical media anymore. I use ISOs directly to boot virtual machines and a USB stick for physical machines that retrieve the installation from a loopback mounted ISO on a file server.