Re: Fedora 9 Everything Spin released

[Bill Davidsen <davidsen@xxxxxxx>]

Jeroen van Meeuwen wrote:
> Bill Davidsen wrote:
> > Jeroen van Meeuwen wrote:
> > > Fedora Unity is proud to announce the release of the Fedora 9 
> > > Everything Spin!
> > >
> > > Go to http://spins.fedoraunity.org/spins to get the bits!
> > >
> > > The Everything Spin includes everything available at the time of the 
> > > release of Fedora 9. It is the same, really, it is. Just more. Way, 
> > > way more! And the more Fedora, the better!
> > >
> > > The i386 as well as x86_64 Fedora 9 Everything Spin is rather large, 
> > > yet sized a fashionable 4 DVD's. You can imagine carrying those 
> > > around as your complete, instant, bootable and installable mirror of 
> > > everything Fedora has to offer -at the moment Fedora 9 was released. 
> > > Of course you could just use a USB Harddrive, or even USB thumbdrive 
> > > (16GB), but that wouldn't make the Everything Spin any more fun now 
> > > would it?
> > Haven't had a chance to look at this, but is this still based on old 
> > single layer DVD sizing? While not all old DVD burners will burn D/L 
> > DVD, based on a sample size of 12 old burners and players, they all 
> > seem to read D/L just fine.
> >
> > And Blu-ray won the HD battle, Linux supports using the burners, how 
> > about a real everything on a single media release?
>
> If you had looked at the download link at least, you would have seen CD, 
> DVD, DVD Dual Layer and Bluray ISO images available for download.
I was completely clear on that, it's not something I need at the moment, 
so I was asking based on the text of the original post.

> > Is this really "everything" or will we have to go to repositories in 
> > free countries for working media players and best encryption?
>
> This is "Everything", as in 
> http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/releases/9/Everything/$arch/os/Packages 
Still a useful collection.

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