[NTLUG:Discuss] Sorta OT: dvd

[Rev. wRy]

On Sat, 2005-02-19 at 09:08, Greg Edwards wrote:

> Remember that the M$ way is to force you to buy NEW hardware just to 
> upgrade.  I really hope that the OSS community isn't heading down that 
> path.  I've already got CDs and I don't want to HAVE to buy DVD drives for 
> all of my servers just to do the next upgrade.  If the transition to DVD 
> only is slow (several years) then I can live with it.  However, if it is 
> forced on us ;(

SuSE already does this.

And when I contacted Novell about CD availability, I was instructed to
get a DVD player so that I could extract .isos and burn them myself.

Their DVD is now a coaster.

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