On Fri, Mar 4, 2011 at 6:33 AM, Johnny Hughes <johnny at centos.org> wrote: > On 03/03/2011 11:44 PM, Jimmy Bradley wrote: >> I do have one question about Cent OS 6. >> Sonetimes back, I remember reading that the plan was to spread the iso's >> over multiple cd's, rather than put it all on 1 dvd. Is that still the >> plan? As far as when it's released, I say take all the time you need. >> I'd rather have an os that works, than something that's just thrown >> together, and is about as stable as windows me, or vista. >> > > That will depend upon how upstream wrote the item that splits the RPMs. > The distros are getting so big now that it might not make sense to > continue to create CDs ... CentOS 5.6 will have at least 8 (and maybe 9) > CDs for x86_64. I would expect that number to grow for CentOS 6. In > fact, we already had to split 5.5 x86_64 over 2 DVDs, and both arches > for CentOS 6 will likely be 2 DVDs. And even the DVD's are hitting limits. The current RHEL 6 Server DVD does not contain python-docutils or audiofile-devel, they're part of a separate "optional" channel. (This just drove me insane trying to recompile nx and neatx, I was *very* surprised they weren't part of the basic channel.) CentOS doesn't maintain all these distinct "channels" they can just leave off of the installation media, so may face a size burden trying to get all those nominally "other channel" components onto one DVD, especially that "optional" channel.