On Thursday 07 October 2004 02:39 pm, Eben King wrote:
> On Thu, 7 Oct 2004, steve szmidt wrote:
> > On Thursday 07 October 2004 01:05 pm, Eben King wrote:
> > > On Thu, 7 Oct 2004, Tom E. Craddock, Jr. wrote:
> > > > Ive been using KDE 3.3 on FC2 for about 2 weeks now, and while its
> > > > not as fast as your FC3 setup, its still pretty quick. Overall I
> > > > like the cleaner sleeker look of 3.3 compared to previous versions.
> > > > Are you running FC3 on a desktop or laptop? I also like to just
> > > > setup a YAM/YUM server on my network and use it as a HTTP/FTP install
> > > > server; I already have one setup for FC2 (and a few apt repositories
> > > > for updates) and it makes installs so much faster (no changing CDs,
> > > > only have to burn a 4MB iso, etc.).
> > >
> > > 4MB? Seems kinda silly to put something small enough to fit on three
> > > floppies on a DVD. Or DYM 4GB?
> >
> > Who would ever use Gigabytes of data? You must be kidding!
>
> Hey, data expands to fill available space. A DVD holds 4.3*2^30B or
> so... you do the math.
I'm just kidding ... : )
My DVD player can write 8.5GB (when they release the discs for it, that is).
But I used to have my whole distro copied onto a drive and then just do any
installs from there.
FC3 comes with a DVD iso, which is easier to deal with too.
> Can't wait until we see multi-DVD distros... NOT.
Yes, multi DVD installs. But you know, as storage is getting cheaper and
cheaper the days of 30 floppy installs are not going to come back.
I think someone had already come up with an optical solution that handles 1TB.
IBM is making things smaller and smaller too. Their R&D has a working 1 cell
storage (in a lab) unit.
--Steve Szmidt
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