On 1/12/11 5:05 PM, Jon Masters wrote: > On Wed, 2011-01-12 at 19:10 +0100, Ralf Corsepius wrote: >> On 01/12/2011 06:43 PM, MÃirÃn Duffy wrote: >>> On Wed, 2011-01-12 at 17:34 +0000, "JÃhann B. GuÃmundsson" wrote: >>>> I'm just wondering if the board has discussed the future of optical >>>> media with in the project and perhaps set any dates/releases where we >>>> plan to no longer support them. >>>> >>>> This is just intended to get the discussion going and the pros and cons >>>> of continuing to distribute cd/dvd sized images as opposed to ( larger ) >>>> images targeted against USB flash drives. >>> >>> A big pro to abandoning CD size images for the default install is the >>> option of including more languages than just English... >> >> A con would be loosing all machines which don't have a DVD reader and >> which can't boot from USB. > > Another con would be people living outside of North America, Western > Europe, and parts of Asia (also known as the "rest of the world") > getting access to distribution bits. In theory[0], it is possible to > give someone a DVD today who might otherwise only have dialup access, or > might pay a lot to download data, even over a modern cell network. And > even in the US, there are still many regions without broadband. > > Jon. > > [0] Excessively excessive update churn rate not withstanding. > I don't follow. The proposal seems to be raising the iso size to DVD size only, which you then say a con would be losing a lot of people. Then you say in theory you could give somebody a DVD since they don't have broadband. Confused? We're not taking away DVD sized images... -- Jesse Keating Fedora -- Freedom is a feature! identi.ca: http://identi.ca/jkeating _______________________________________________ advisory-board mailing list advisory-board@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/advisory-board
