On Fri, Mar 04, 2011 at 05:33:20AM -0600, Johnny Hughes 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. How reasonable would it be to offer DVD images that fit on DL media? I know I don't own any DL media, and probably most others don't either, but I at least do have DL-capable optical drives. If a good enough reason came up, e.g., my favorite distro making DL isos available, I'd probably go buy some. -- ---- Fred Smith -- fredex at fcshome.stoneham.ma.us ----------------------------- "For the word of God is living and active. Sharper than any double-edged sword, it penetrates even to dividing soul and spirit, joints and marrow; it judges the thoughts and attitudes of the heart." ---------------------------- Hebrews 4:12 (niv) ------------------------------