[tdf-discuss] Re: A better idea for a download package.

Le 2010-11-30 13:44, Robert Derman a écrit :

> Its difficult to really offer any meaningful suggestions until we get
> beyond the beta stage but once we do, we should really do a better job
> than OOo ever did of making LO available on disk for all those people
> with only dial-up or no internet connection at all. I understand that
> right now due to a lack of server space the current download package is
> FAR too large. That problem will of course have to be solved. Once there
> is enough server space, we should offer a choice of download packages,
> as I have mentioned in previous emails.
>
> I know that virtually all computers made in the last few years have had
> DVD as opposed to CD optical drives installed. Actually I think it is
> 5-6 years now. What I am getting at with this is that the LO disk could
> be a DVD disk rather than a CD disk. Or at least it could be available
> on both kinds of disk. Anyway, the cost of DVD blanks is not
> significantly more than CD blanks, and a DVD would offer more than
> enough space for everything TDF has to offer.

The trend is to actually no longer offer a CD or DVD drive. The DVD 
drives are also slowly disappearing. I was a whitebox dealer for a while 
and my stock whiteboxes were not sold with DVD drives. These were sold 
as extras.

However, this does not in any way help our dial-up modem membership. Our 
communities should help out in creating disk in their localities to help 
this group.

Marc



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