Re: [CentOS] new laptop: DVD or Blu-ray

2015-08-25 Thread Chris Bannister
On Mon, Aug 24, 2015 at 01:09:19PM +0100, Darac Marjal wrote: > On Sat, Aug 22, 2015 at 11:53:09PM +1200, Chris Bannister wrote: > > > > Please don't top post on this mailing list. > > > > On Thu, Aug 20, 2015 at 06:04:03AM -0500, Hal Wigoda wrote: > > > I wouldn't outfit a computer with blu-ray

Re: [CentOS] new laptop: DVD or Blu-ray

2015-08-24 Thread Darac Marjal
On Sat, Aug 22, 2015 at 11:53:09PM +1200, Chris Bannister wrote: > > Please don't top post on this mailing list. > > On Thu, Aug 20, 2015 at 06:04:03AM -0500, Hal Wigoda wrote: > > I wouldn't outfit a computer with blu-ray > > > > (Sent from iPhone, so please accept my apologies in advance for a

Re: [CentOS] new laptop: DVD or Blu-ray

2015-08-22 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Saturday 22 August 2015 12:53:09 Chris Bannister wrote: > Please don't top post on this mailing list. I believe it is quite hard not to on an iPhone. :-( > > On Thu, Aug 20, 2015 at 06:04:03AM -0500, Hal Wigoda wrote: > > I wouldn't outfit a computer with blu-ray > > > > (Sent from iPhone, so p

Re: [CentOS] new laptop: DVD or Blu-ray

2015-08-22 Thread Chris Bannister
Please don't top post on this mailing list. On Thu, Aug 20, 2015 at 06:04:03AM -0500, Hal Wigoda wrote: > I wouldn't outfit a computer with blu-ray > > (Sent from iPhone, so please accept my apologies in advance for any spelling > or grammatical errors.) Is the iPhone really that bad? Is proof

Re: [CentOS] new laptop: DVD or Blu-ray

2015-08-20 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, ken wrote: > One of the build options for a laptop I'm looking at buying is DVD vs > Blu-Ray. I've never used Blue-ray before, so is there some compelling > reason, as a Linux guy, to want to get Blu-ray? If you want to backup disk files, then BD is much less cumbersome than DVD. My Debian 8

Re: [CentOS] new laptop: DVD or Blu-ray

2015-08-20 Thread John Hodrien
On Thu, 20 Aug 2015, Hal Wigoda wrote: Personal preference. Who uses blu ray? Who uses DVDs? This really isn't a winning discussion. If you want to read/write blu-ray disks, then buy a blu-ray reader/writer. If you don't, don't. You can get a blu ray writer for ~£50, so it really should

Re: [CentOS] new laptop: DVD or Blu-ray

2015-08-20 Thread Hal Wigoda
Personal preference. Who uses blu ray? Who uses DVDs? Anyway. (Sent from iPhone, so please accept my apologies in advance for any spelling or grammatical errors.) > On Aug 20, 2015, at 6:21 AM, ken wrote: > >> On 08/20/2015 07:04 AM, Hal Wigoda wrote: >> I wouldn't outfit a computer wit

Re: [CentOS] new laptop: DVD or Blu-ray

2015-08-20 Thread ken
On 08/20/2015 07:35 AM, Nicolas George wrote: Second, it [Blu-ray] has dmr crap in it that >might require binary only spyware to work. DVD-Video has them too, the only difference is that the crypto in the DRM for DVD is terribly broken. "Broken" in the sense that data is corrupted or i

Re: [CentOS] new laptop: DVD or Blu-ray

2015-08-20 Thread tomas
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thu, Aug 20, 2015 at 07:21:24AM -0400, ken wrote: > On 08/20/2015 07:04 AM, Hal Wigoda wrote: [...] > Is that a personal preference, or are there reasons? Others have responded too, but I think it's worth re-stating it in a short, sweet form: the

Re: [CentOS] new laptop: DVD or Blu-ray

2015-08-20 Thread Nicolas George
Le tridi 3 fructidor, an CCXXIII, Mauricio Tavares a écrit : > One of the compelling reasons > against is that only movies use it. Unless the drive can also burn BD-R disks, in which case you have a reasonably-priced way of storing 22.5 gigaoctsts of data. F

Re: [CentOS] new laptop: DVD or Blu-ray

2015-08-20 Thread Mauricio Tavares
On Aug 20, 2015 6:54 AM, "ken" wrote: > > One of the build options for a laptop I'm looking at buying is DVD vs Blu-Ray. I've never used Blue-ray before, so is there some compelling reason, as a Linux guy, to want to get Blu-ray? > First of all, is this going to be your desktop or a server

Re: [CentOS] new laptop: DVD or Blu-ray

2015-08-20 Thread ken
On 08/20/2015 07:04 AM, Hal Wigoda wrote: I wouldn't outfit a computer with blu-ray (Sent from iPhone, so please accept my apologies in advance for any spelling or grammatical errors.) On Aug 20, 2015, at 5:53 AM, ken wrote: One of the build options for a laptop I'm looking at buying is DVD

Re: [CentOS] new laptop: DVD or Blu-ray

2015-08-20 Thread Hal Wigoda
I wouldn't outfit a computer with blu-ray (Sent from iPhone, so please accept my apologies in advance for any spelling or grammatical errors.) > On Aug 20, 2015, at 5:53 AM, ken wrote: > > One of the build options for a laptop I'm looking at buying is DVD vs > Blu-Ray. I've never used Blue-r