Re: OSCON, postgres live CD

From: "Scott Marlowe" <smarlowe(at)qwest(dot)net>
To: "Greg Sabino Mullane" <greg(at)turnstep(dot)com>
Cc: pgsql-advocacy(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: OSCON, postgres live CD
Date: 2004-06-11 15:53:27
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On Fri, 2004-06-11 at 06:36, Greg Sabino Mullane wrote:
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> > On the otherhand, there's another version that I prefer myself which has
> > almost every procedural language including tcl, perl, ruby, R, python,
> > pgsql and an odbc interface but it comes around 340mb. Now on a CD this
> > doesn't make too much of a difference however it might be a decision
> > breaker when it comes to deciding what should be available for download
> > for the masses.
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> Go with the big one. It's a CD, we might as well use as much of it as
> possible. It would be nice to throw some other things on as well, such
> as some common drivers (DBD::Pg, JDBC), interfaces (phpPgAdmin), and perhaps
> a couple of replication solutions. Having the checksums for the latest
> source files would be great as well.

While I'm not going to OSCON this year, I thought I'd mention that the
3" CD blanks hold about 150 Meg, so the small one might be nice for its
ability to be put in a smaller package and carried in a shirt pocket.

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