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Yggdrasil ships Linux Open Source DVD

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the all-the-code-you-can-eat dept.

JWhitlock writes " ZDNet reports that Yggdrasil Computing has released a Linux DVD Archive. It's a DVD9-ROM with the FTP archives of Metalab.org and GNU.org. It's all freeware source, no binaries, 8.3GB compressed, over 23 GB uncompressed. It has no distributions on it, so you have to have Linux first. From the website: "...you must be running Linux kernel 2.2.14, 2.3.28 or later in order to access files located more than four gigabytes into the DVD. Aside from that, your standard CD-ROM and iso9660 ("isofs") filesystem support that you use for accessing CD's will be sufficient to access this DVD. " You can only get it direct from their website" Remember the old infomagic set? That thing blew me away thinking "A whole gig!", but thats nothing compared to this stuff.

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  1. Dirty words by SClitheroe · · Score: 5

    Now we can finally figure out how many dirty words are in the majority of Open Source software... I wonder how long it'll take to grep 23 gigs :)

  2. Re:It also includes DVD-mastering software by mvw · · Score: 5
    Was it really impossible to burn DVDs under Linux prior to this?

    It might depend on the access method. What we have here is a giant ISO 9660 file system (the format common CD-ROMs use) to access the DVD. This seems indeed not to have been possible due to a kernel limitation in Linux.

    They describe the making of the DVD here, the really interesting link BTW.

    The natural format for such a large optical disc would be UDF of course. I am not sure if this is also on that DVD (or if dual ISO 9660 / UDF discs are possible at all).

  3. Re:Less than $70, actually.... *BUT* by AJWM · · Score: 5

    old enough to not have the new RPC-2 region controls

    Well, there is that. Mine predates those (it was what, anything manufactured after January or February of this year?) but yes, the newer ones will probably have them (or not be able to play DVD movies at all).

    Hmm, now if some off-shore DVD manufacturer were to incorporate, say, DeCSS-derived firmware rather than a CCA-licensed version, they'd save the CCA tax and be able to undercut competition. CCA of course would probably try to get the things halted at the borders, it'd make for an interesting court case.

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