Date: Tue, 27 Feb 1996 08:19:41 +0500 (GMT+0500) From: "Serge A. Babkin" <babkin@hq.icb.chel.su> To: msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au (Michael Smith) Cc: jkh@time.cdrom.com, hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: OK, so what would YOU like to see on that second CD? Message-ID: <199602270319.IAA23615@hq.icb.chel.su> In-Reply-To: <199602270121.LAA08310@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> from "Michael Smith" at Feb 27, 96 11:51:37 am
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> > Jordan K. Hubbard stands accused of saying: > > > > I'm talking about the Walnut Creek CDROM distribution, of course, and > > I'm starting to feel like my little "live CD" idea hasn't really > > turned out to be such a big hit. Most people aren't even sure how and > > when to use it, just judging by the emails I get, and those that do > > know what it's for report that they've used it oh, maybe once. I > > myself must confess to having used my copy of disk #2 only once, and > > that was only to rescue myself by grabbing a copy of ld.so off of it. :-) > > I've used it for md5'ing stuff that might have been corrupted, but I > agree that it's not necessarily a great winner. > > > So the question then naturally arises as to whether this second CD > > might not be more usefully populated by something else.. A Lite2 > > tree? A copy of Slackware 3.0? The complete "naughty jpeg" > > collection from ftp.penet.fi? Just what would you folks like to see? :-) > > Two seperate distributions : A single disk for -RELEASEs as before. > (Perhaps when the ports/packages get too big, farm them off onto a second > disk), and a 'developers supplement' disk, with the 'experimental' stuff, > the CVS tree and anything else relevant. I can suggest the CTM -current and -stable "base delta" and deltas upto the time of release too. -SB
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