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- > > - the almoust famous crypt problem.
- > > (impossible to export the CD ?)
- >
- > I think I have the solution to this (at least, as good a solution as
- > anyone in North America is going to come up with, short of getting the
- > stupid laws changed)
-
- What is your solution? Details please...
-
- > > - What to include on the CD? 600MB are quite a bit to fill.
- >
- > Lots of stuff. Sources and binaries for everything. There's plenty of
- > good Unix software out there, one could easily fill a 600M disc several
- > times over without trying :-)
-
- I agree. A netbsd only CD-ROM is the right way to go, even if it ends up
- being only partially full in the beginning. I was *not* considering
- adding netbsd to one of my existing CD-ROM distributions.
-
- > > - the documentation is as yet poor.
- >
- > Well, this is something we might be able to work on.
-
- Great!
-
- > > And remember, Fred can easily make updates every month...
-
- No, that was not the intention. The idea, which is what Ty is also
- suggesting I believe, is that there will be periodic revisions of the
- CD-ROM distribution at points when things are stable enough to make
- doing a new revision reasonable.
-
- > Arbitrary snapshots at one month intervals aren't a good idea, IMHO.
-
- ftp access works fine for people that need very frequent updates and have
- ftp access. Low quantity CD-R ("writable CD-ROM") distributions might
- make some sense for people without ftp access but would be expensive,
- probably about $50 per disc. CD-ROM distributions should probably be
- about half that.
-
- > Can Fred make discs that much easier than we can? I don't know, but I
- > doubt it.
-
- There's no magic to it, just lots of details to get dealt with. It's
- easier once you've done it a couple times.
-
- > Fred's also already doing
- > plenty of work already, does he have the time to invest in yet another
- > disc as well? Let the rest of us have some fun too, Fred :-)
-
- Sounds fine by me. I would probably have to end up hiring someone full
- time to take on a netbsd-CDROM project, so if someone else wants to do it
- and do a job that the netbsd developers are satisfied with, that's great.
-
- BTW, it sounds to me like a lot of the prime netbsd developers are
- "hardware poor", I.E. they generally don't have the hardware resources
- they could really use. One of my concepts for the netbsd CDROM project
- was to structure it so that some of the profits from the distribution
- went back to the prime developers in the form of new Amigas, more hard
- disks, more tape drives, graphics cards, and various other types of
- new toys. Some of them felt funny about the idea of accepting such
- support and the big unanswered question were "who decides who gets what
- and how much". I hope that however the CD-ROM distribution ends up being
- organized, that we (as a netbsd using community) can see to it that the
- people that are investing so much of their time and sweat into bringing
- us cool software can at least have the resources necessary to do the
- job without having to dig into their own pockets to do so.
-
- -Fred
-
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