[Fedora-ambassadors-list] Requesting DVDs

Rahul Sundaram sundaram at fedoraproject.org
Tue Mar 28 16:11:58 UTC 2006


On Tue, 2006-03-28 at 21:34 +0530, Tejas Dinkar wrote:
> On 3/28/06, Clair <fedora at freehold.no-ip.info> wrote:
> > > Rahul Sundaram wrote:
> > > > On Mon, 2006-03-27 at 12:36 +0200, Wassim K. wrote:
> > > >> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----
> > > >> Hash: SHA1
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> > > >> Hello everybody!
> > > >> It's a shame that, as Fedora ambassador, I still don't have Fedora
> > > >> Core 5 DVD.
> > > >
> > > > Well then, its a shame that you didn't request for it.
> > > > http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FreeMedia
> > >
> > > Or, indeed, download it ;)
> 
> Terribly insensitive remark.
> 
> When 56kbps dialup is a luxury, how can you expect people to download 5
> GB of ISOs? I think it is fair for him to ask for one DVD/CD set for
> personal use.
> 
> I one ran a yum install on a box with 36.6 dialup (around FC2 times). It
> took 4 hours just to get the yum headers. Connections are not available
> everywhere, and often, these are the places which need FC5 the most
> 
> FreeMedia does not distribute to Ambassadors, (something which probably
> will change later, at least hopefully)

Who told you that?  Freemedia distributes to everyone who asks for it as
long as we have stock to send. I am just looking at it companies where I
get media labeled and mass produced before I do this myself. 

Rahul




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