Re: Paying CD vendors for freebies
On May 25, renfro@tntech.edu wrote:
> On a related note, is my count off, or do we really only *need* to give
> out 2 CDs for most architectures? Granted, having source and contrib CDs
> on hand is nice and/or politically correct, but are they really necessary
> as freebies?
The complete Debian *main* binary distribution is around 835 MB for
Intel; a CD can hold 650 MB. Not including the install hierarchy,
etc. So two discs are necessary, even for main.
[These are slink figures; potato will doubtless be bigger.]
Chris
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