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Debian On DVD

Posted by timothy on from the more-on-fewer dept.

jwest writes "LCS now has Debian GNU/Linux 'woody' on DVD-R We were just tired of shucking around the 6 CD/ROM's it takes to do a new installation with woody. One DVD that can be read on a common place DVD reader seemed like its time had come. More info." Debian unstable, for the adventurous with a DVD-drive. Update: 10/25 23:14 GMT by T : Sorry, that's "testing." Just ... testing.

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  1. Im waiting for.. by BiggestPOS · · Score: 4, Funny

    The Widescreen DTS edition of Debian Does Dallas/b?

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  2. Good! by crashnbur · · Score: 3, Interesting
    No more messing around with multiple CDs!

    I suppose this has little direct bearing on other wares, but I also suppose that others will follow suit. I would love to be able - just once - to install Microsoft Office Professional, or Visual Studio, or any other suite of several CDs from just one disc.

    Of course, as the DVD-ROM slowly becomes the software standard for such massive space requirements, I don't think that will a problem. In the meantime, how are DVDR drives' prices doing?

  3. SuSE has done this for a while... by psxndc · · Score: 4, Informative
    and installing one DVD is a lot less "sitting in front of the computer changing disks" of a hassle. Only problem is: what if you have multiple machines, some of which only have a CD drive, with others having both? I know SuSE, at least with Professionl, give you both. Call me a SuSE fanboy, but I am.

    psxndc

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  4. NOT Debian unstable! by emag · · Score: 4, Informative

    Debian unstable, for the adventurous with a DVD-drive.

    "woody" is the debian "testing" version, not the debian "unstable". Debian's "unstable" is AKA "sid". Still cool, though.

    Now I wish I either had a laptop w/ a DVD drive, or could find a decent SCSI DVD drive for my home system, since IDE sucks so bad.

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