DSL Ideas and Suggestions :: Spiffy CDs



the fancy cd idea is cool, but maybe since they cost more it should only happen every so often. like when dsl gets to round numbers. offer nifty cd's at version 0.5 and 0.6, but not 0.4.19 and what not.
I'd buy a nice graphical cd, but not if there is a new version every week like there has been, because I would be buying new CDs all of the time.
I'd rather have an 80mm CD-RW than a business card sized CD-R, for that very reason. That way, whenever a new ISO comes out, I could just download it and burn it. I am very tempted to get 0.5 on  CD-R, because although DSl is much smaller than many other distros, it still takes a good few hours to download over dial-up. I'd much rather have a nice looking CD as well, so would be prepared to pay extra. However, a few weeks later when 0.5.1 comes out with that must-have new feature, that fancy CD-R will be useless for it. Plus having it on CD-RW means I can remaster easily, and still have my fancy disc to run it from!

Please can someone make up some fancy 80mm CD-RWs with nice graphics? I really think you'd get more people buying CDs if you advertise the fact that when a new release comes out you just download it and write over, even if the CDs cost more.

Sam
Memorex sells 50mb business card disks, and also sheets of blank labels for home printers. The best way to get cool graphics on to a disk may just be to have artwork available for download from this website and then people could print their own. Of course it would also be easy to do the whole process in-house for a small spiff fee to cover the label and application of it.

Paper labels may not be as nice as printed disks, but every time there is a new release all you have to do is hop in to gimp and update the version number.

Last bit of information here: Business card CD-R labels are shaped like the disks so you can't just apply them like regular ROUND CD-R labels. You have to make sure that the label goes on straight. This level of complication plus the cost of the craptastic CD-Stomper for a person who does not have one can make things expensive, for a product that is free off the net. Basically, someone could buy a pack of 25 ink-jet label sheets and then turn around and sell 50 half-sheets of labels as an extra whenever someone purchases a disk. Conversely, that same 'label-baron' could apply them himself as a service before sending out filled orders.

That way each person isn't forced to buy a pack of 100 labels as well as an application tool just to make 1 or 2 disks.

Final final words: If the label is too difficult to apply to the CD successfully (aligned) you could always switch to slapping labels on the vinyl sleeves, which don't need to be balanced for 600rpm rides inside the inside the CD-ROM.

Apology: I have a tendency to ramble if I am not careful, and this time I am not going back to make sure this thing is a pleasant read, sorry guys.

If this option is worth exploring I already have all the materials including disks, vinyl sleeves, official Memorex labels, and a salvaged ink-jet printer. I had planned to actually use these for business cards during my quest for a job, but I managed to find one more quickly than I had expected. Current inventory is something like 45 60mm CD-R Blanks /w vinyl sleeves, and 50-100 labels.

If someone wants to cook up the art, I can see about putting it to disk.
NOO!!!

DSL is a minimalist distro!! it should stay close to its roots!!!!

LONG LIVE THE SHARPIE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1111!!!oneoneone!!!1! :p ???

actually, i like downloading DSL and burning it myself. its faster.
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