On Wed, 2010-03-24 at 13:59 -0400, David Zeuthen wrote: > On Wed, 2010-03-24 at 13:21 -0400, Adam Jackson wrote: > > On Wed, 2010-03-24 at 09:50 -0400, James Laska wrote: > > > > > So the new size limit for desktop live images will be 1G or 1Gib? > > > > 1GiB. 2^30, not 10^9. > > Why? It seems backwards to use 1GiB instead of 1GB - most 1GB USB sticks > only hold 1GB, not 1GiB. And the whole point of this excursion was to > fit on 1GB USB sticks. Well, one of the points anyway. > > Anyway, it still seems to me that these two statements are still true > > a) 2GB sticks are not really more expensive than 1GB sticks > (see list archives for other people seconding this impression) > > b) we're already low on space for 1GB/1GiB and we don't even > have anything like hires Theora videos yet. And we want to > leave some space for a persistent overlay. > > Also, I think I've asked this twice on this list already... without > anyone caring to respond. Matthias, Colin, please respond... > My understanding was that 1GB would be 'up to 1GB of data' - if you want a persistent overlay, use a bigger stick... leaving room for a usefully-sized overlay within 1GB would seem to clash with the additional size requirements for OpenOffice alone. Matthias -- desktop mailing list desktop@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop
