Debian decides to help users of optical drives the new generation Blu-ray. In the short term, there are pictures of BD one of the oldest Linux distributions.

Steve McIntyre - leader of the team responsible for preparing the distribution of CDs on the mailing list has announced an appearance on 25 gigabajtowych version of Debian. Blu-ray versions are currently available for the i386 and amd64 architectures, in later versions come next, the question marks facing a version for PowerPC. The problem here is a system file on the CD that must be applied and which has problems with the handling of such data. So issued will contain all the Debian packages for your system. So far, to have all the packages, it took 33 CDs or 5 DVDs (for the i386) or 35 CDs and 5 DVDs (for amd64). Images of Blu-ray discs will be available via download jigdo and through a network torrent.

McIntyre also presented calculations as to the quantity of images for the upcoming stable version of Debian. It turns out that if the figure up all the architecture is to be made available 414 CD images, 64 images of DVD and 13 Blu-ray discs.

Source: Debian Project News

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