[KLUG Members] Speed comparison of all major Linux filesystems.

[Bruce Smith]

> > Since we're talking, what do you think would be a fair price
> > for such a service?  I can see it being a premium charged on
> > top of the supporting membership fee of $25/year.  How much
> > extra would you pay for access to the ISO images all the time?
> 
> No offense to the BSware sales and marketing departments :) but I
> think as broadband becomes more commonly available the need for
> this will fade away.

I agree, we've already discussed this on the officer's mailing list.
(I'm sure sales & marketing won't be too offended :)

Total KLUG CD sales (not just BSware) have slowly declined over the few 
years to almost nothing.  BSware is by far the largest seller (small as
sales are), probably because it has advantages of stock Redhat ISO
images, and has not (until now) available for download anywhere.

The other factor, IMO, for declining KLUG CD sales is the cheap prices
for CDR burners and cheap media prices.

There are still a few dialup users left in the world, and we have had
requests to ship BSware to people too distant to pick up CD's at
meetings.  KLUG will keep selling CD's as long as this continues.

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Bruce Smith                bruce@armintl.com
System Administrator / Network Administrator
Armstrong International, Inc.
Three Rivers, Michigan  49093  USA
http://www.armstrong-intl.com/
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