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CDROM-Summaries
(Updated 5/13//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.
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. They may also be budget concious
and not able to afford CD-ROM's on a more frequent
basis.
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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 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 targetted 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 any material from the 1000 floppy archive.