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SubjectRe: 2.3 wish: integrate pcmcia into mainstream kernel
In <E10pveq-00033q-00@the-village.bc.nu> Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk) wrote:
>> Worst case, yes.. spring for the extra 50 cents for an extra CD in the set.

> Well I can't answer this from Red Hat's point of view, as I don't know how
> their costings work, but when I used t work in the games industry it was a
> bit nastier than 50c

> 'extra cd'
> - increased packing cost
> - weighs more - smaller manual or more shipping (big issue)
> - doubles the number of packages returned with faulty CD
> - 50c to vendor, is $1 to distributor is $2 to customer

Hmmm. There are TWO CD's already: one with system to install and one with
sources. Why not make second CD bootable ?




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