[Fedora-ambassadors-list] Requesting DVDs

Kushal Das kushaldas at gmail.com
Tue Mar 28 17:45:49 UTC 2006


On Tuesday 28 March 2006 21:45, Clair wrote:
> On Tuesday 28 March 2006 17:04, Tejas Dinkar wrote:
> > > > 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 wouldn't call 56k "luxury" anymore - nowadays much of the world is
> broadband. I'm on 2mb and that's considered *slow* to the Americans and
> mainland Europeans.
Sorry, but countries like India, a 256k connection is also not available 
everywhere. Actually 2mb is dream for me :)
>
> > 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
>
> That's where the vendors come in: I spend many hours slaving over that
> list. How about using it? ;)
>
> > FreeMedia does not distribute to Ambassadors, (something which probably
> > will change later, at least hopefully)
>
> Check out Word Of Mouth: http://fedoraproject.org/Marketing/WordOfMouth
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>
> Clair

Regards,
Kushal
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