Packaging question: /usr/share/gnome/help ownership

Manuel Wolfshant wolfy at nobugconsulting.ro
Thu Jun 12 12:34:19 UTC 2008


Toshio Kuratomi wrote:
> Kevin Kofler wrote:
>> Toshio Kuratomi <a.badger <at> gmail.com> writes:
>>> The playing time is 74 minutes, or 4440 seconds, so that the net 
>>> capacity of a Mode-1 CD-ROM is 682 MB."""
>>
>> Uh, 74 minute CDs are completely obsolete, around here (Austria) they 
>> don't even sell these anymore! 80 minute / 700 MB CDs are the 
>> standard size these days, and those are what Fedora's live images are 
>> (and have always been) designed to fit.
>>
> But not all drives can read 700MB from a CD.  Those drives might be 
> obsolete in the sense that you can't buy them on a new computer 
> anymore but there's plenty of old hardware available where it could be 
> a problem.
I haven't seen yet a disk drive unit manufactured in the last 6 years 
which is still functional but is unable to read 700 MB disks. Actually I 
do not remember of ANY unit manufactured this century and unable to read 
700 MB disks.





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