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SuSE Coming on DVD

Posted by justin++ on from the less-discs-more-data dept.

SuSE has announced that its next release, 6.3, will be available on DVD as well as CD. The release date is supposedly December. I hope this practce catches on. Debian 2.1 was 2 discs for just binaries, and it's much larger now. I have a 6 disc set of SuSE 6.2. The packaging is both neat and clumsy. Too bad the only DVD player I own is connected to my stereo....

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  1. Wait, wait! You can't do that! by extrasolar · · Score: 4
    I just patented:

    Using a storage media greater than 500 megabytes for the storage of many individually compressed software components.


    Pay up! Yep, that means you future mp3 DVD burners too!

    :)

    But seriously, this is great. While the rest of the world is getting excited about DVD movies and mega-games, I think the greatest thing about DVDs are more space! Just think: all the binary packages AND the source on ONE disk.

    Oh yeah!

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