Debian Wheezy, and distribution media (CD/DVD/BD)
Hi All !
Proposal: Replace CD media with BD (Blu-Ray Disc, 25 GB) media on HTTP
mirrors for Wheezy.
After looking a bit at Debian mirrors, the situation looks as-if
pre-made CDs becoming a dead animal.
Seriously.. look here:
http://cdimage.debian.org/debian-cd/6.0.3/amd64/iso-cd/
Debian Squeeze 6.0.3 has no less than 52 CDs on HTTP mirrors ! (amd64 arch)
It is *extremely* unlikely to find people, whom will actually
download, burn, and install Debian this way.
On the other hand, the upcoming media, BD, is not even on HTTP servers.
Debian Squeeze 6.0.3 can be squeezed into just 2 BDs !
For this reason, I'd like to ask to add BD set to HTTP mirrors and
remove CD set from it. (providing the CD set only via 'jigdo')
Adding BD set to HTTP mirrors makes sense starting with current Debian
6.x, while removing CD set makes sense starting with Wheezy, which
will likely require over 70 CDs -- staggering amount for anyone to
download & burn.
What do you think about it ?
Best wishes,
--
-Alexey Eromenko "Technologov"
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