DSL Ideas and Suggestions :: Spiffy CDs



I'm a sharpie kinda guy also but if you're interested in CD's I stumbled on this deal at the Neato site when I was looking for some information for work. Might check it out. It looks like it is a pretty good deal.

Chris

Neato
I would like it just as soon As I get a job. I like dsl, and Willing to spend more money to support a cause. But first I need to get money myself...
As soon as I manage to acquire a job that allows me a credit card, I'll gladly support DSL.  My only problem is the fact that the biz-CD's are CD-R not CD-RW.  If they were RW, then I'd buy one in a heartbeat, so that you could always keep up with the tide of things.

Speaking of that, I'll have to check into something here in town - they have this uncanny ability to slice and dice CD's into fancy shapes... I wonder if they could chop an RW down to pocket-CD or biz-CD size so that you could use them like that...

I'll get back to you guys on that.
I must say that this is a very intersting thread...

DSL should stay minimalist, but a nice cd would be good.

However I must say that the weekly release is driving me nuts, there should be a scheduled release of DSL, since dsl is based off knoppix, and knoppix is based off debian and debian has 3 classes of releases (stable, testing, and un-stable)

1. stable release can be scheduled for a biquarterly or semi-annually release (for those that want a true producton version of DSL instead of constantly trying to keep up with the *.*.1 incriment releases)

2. testing release which scheduled for monthly release (for those who want the latest and greatest and newest options...also helps with troubleshooting and testing)

Wouldnt be hard to implement and would take the load off of not only the mirrors but off the DSL team as well..this way he just punches out upgrades montly instead of weekly and having to update the website, keep up with new problems in the forums and whatnot...gives them a better chance to develop, test, and deploy much more smoothly.

just my $0.02

Brian
AwPhuch

Oh and [shameless plug on]]SmoothWall Express Firewall[/shameless plug off]
DSL is supposed to be a livecd and is not managed like a full-blown distribution like Debain.

DSL and Knoppix have different goals so their release methods are different.  Knoppix tries to keep up to date applications and kernel versions, while DSL tries to keep application updates to a minimum because newer versions of software almost always take up more disk space and DSL is VERY limited with disk space.

ALmost all of the DSL releases lately contian MAJOR functionality improvements that revolutionize the way that many people use the product.  It makes no sense to keep these changes under wraps for a long period of time in order to adhere to a release schedule.

If you don't want to update your DSL every few weeks you are welcome to continue using the version that you already posess.  Chances are that this version is stable and quite usable even though it does not contain the latest features.

For example, I always keep a copy of DSL 0.5.3.1 around because it plays nice with an older computer that uses Opera for the web browser.

Just my $0.02   Take it for what its worth.
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