On Sat, 2002-12-28 at 23:07, Leon Brooks wrote: > On Friday 27 December 2002 02:43 pm, SI Reasoning wrote: > > The best thing about having the iso out before > > the boxed set is that you have all of these people testing and reporting > > problems back to get fixed. > > No. The ISO is in theory the same as what gets shipped, and in practice may > actually be slightly more updated. Pressing, packaging and shipping take > time. If you could collapse the lead time on pressing and packaging to a few > days (e.g. by packaging some of the first pressing batch before pressing > completes, a JustInTime mode like Nippon uses for producing their cars, > and/or distributing the pressing and packaging operations so they occur near > the few biggest markets), you could orchestrate a simultaneous release by > airfreighting the first packages direct from packaging facility to stores and > charging a small premium for them. > > Cheers; Leon the info on the iso's don't change, but their are plenty of fixes that happen after release but before the packaged set is released. These are then downloaded and installed as one of the last sections of the install and it brings the installation up to date. -- SI Reasoning <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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