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Fedora 9 Everything Spin released

From:  Jeroen van Meeuwen <kanarip-AT-kanarip.com>
To:  fedora-announce-list-AT-redhat.com, fedora-advisory-board <fedora-advisory-board-AT-redhat.com>, For users of Fedora <fedora-list-AT-redhat.com>
Subject:  Fedora 9 Everything Spin released
Date:  Fri, 16 May 2008 16:05:15 +0200
Message-ID:  <482D949B.9080804@kanarip.com>

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?

Fedora Unity normally includes a CD version "for those of us that do not 
have DVD drives", as we use to say in our Re-Spin release announcements, 
but not this time;

This time Fedora Unity includes a 23 (!) CD version of the Everything 
Spin, *just for kicks* ;-) With Fedora 8, the Everything Spin was just 
19 CDs, so there's 4 discs of extra, new, shiny software! You can see 
how this looks when you're installing from it, here[1].

I'd like to see these discs piled up at every booth showing off the 
enormous amount of available Free and Open Source Software :P

Undoubtfully, some people will give away the CD version of the 
Everything Spin as a birthday present. Also, it reminds people why it is 
they need to upgrade their CD-ROM to DVD players ;-)

Have fun ;-)

Kind regards,

Jeroen van Meeuwen
-kanarip

[1] http://kanarip.fedorapeople.org/Fedora-9-Everything-Spin-...
(numbering a little off for Unknown Reasons(TM) - installation completes 
though)

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How about multiplatform double layer DVD image?

Posted May 22, 2008 2:25 UTC (Thu) by proski (subscriber, #104) [Link]

I'd rather see a spin containing x86_64 and i386 installers, selectable at the boot time. I have two DVDs, one for x86_64 and another for i386. Having one double layer DVD would help.

Perhaps it's even possible to fit PowerPC into a that DL DVD by using symlinks for duplicate packages.

And then they could make "everything multiplatform" for those happy users with Blueray writers.

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