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CDROM-Summaries
(Updated 4/15/94)
This file summarizes the different CD-ROM distributions that are
either currently available or currently planned.
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FreshFish
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Goals
o Provide users with the very latest freely redistributable
material in a timely manner, I.E. within 1-2 months of it's
release or submission to me.
o Provide users with a set of useful utilities that is
updated on each CD-ROM so that users do not have to
continually try to keep up to date with the latest versions
of utilities, libraries, and other material that they use
frequently.
o Provide material that is ready to run directly off the
CD-ROM rather than having to unpack archives or otherwise
consume precious hard drive space.
o Provide the newly released material in a BBS-ready form
so that BBS owners can make it available to their users
as soon as possible.
Frequency of Publication
o Published approximately every 1-2 months.
Structure
o A single CD-ROM with approximately 200Mb+ allocated to
newly released material, 200Mb+ allocated to useful
utilities that are updated on each release, and the
remainder of 200Mb or less, filled on a space available
basis with previously published material. It is anticipated
that eventually the newly released material section and the
useful utilities section will expand to crowd out the section
containing previously released material.
Target Market
o Those users that want the very latest material as soon
as possible, and want the material in a convenient to
use form.
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FrozenFish
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Goals
o Provide users with a convenient source of freely
distributable material that has been released in
the last 6 to 8 months.
o Provide the material only in archived form, so as to
make maximal use of the available space. I.E. squeeze
as much material on the CD-ROM as possible.
Frequency of Publication
o Published approximately every 6 to 8 months, I.E.
after every 3rd or 4th FreshFish CD-ROM.
Structure
o A single CD-ROM containing only archives.
Target Market
o Users that are interested in freely redistributable
software, but are not too concerned about having it in
a convenient form. They are willing to wait up to 6-8
months for new material and are also willing to unpack
it from the CD-ROM and go through whatever setup is
necessary to use it.
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GoldFish
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Goals
o Provide users with a longterm archive of the entire
1000 floppy collection.
o Provide all 1000 floppies in both archived and unarchived
form.
o Provide utilities and a database to make it easy to
find specific material or types of material.
o Provide utilities to recreate specific floppy disks from
the CD-ROM archive.
Frequency of Publication
o Published only one time, upon completion of the floppy
library to disk 1000.
Structure
o A 2 CD-ROM set, with the first volume containing floppy
disks 1-1000 in archived form and disks 1-249 in unarchived
form, and the second volume containing the remaining disks
(250-1000) in unarchived form.
Target Market
o Anyone that would like a longterm archive of my complete
1000 floppy disk library.
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Some things to note are that only the FreshFish CD-ROM will contain all the
GNU utilities and other useful utilities already set up and ready to run
directly off the CD-ROM, thus saving hundreds of megabytes of hard disk
space.
Even though there is significant overlap in coverage of material between the
FreshFish and FrozenFish CD-ROM's, they present the material in vastly
different ways and are targeted at different types of users.
The GoldFish CD-ROM is a "one-time CD-ROM" that has no signficant connection
to the FreshFish or FrozenFish CD-ROM's. After it's release, future
FreshFish and FrozenFish CD-ROM's will no longer contain the contents of
"fish disks" 1-1000 organized on a per disk basis.