On 11/24/2009 08:35 PM, Simon Andrews wrote: > Rahul Sundaram wrote: >> On 11/24/2009 02:21 AM, Ben Williams wrote: >>> If release engineering would like to release liveusb.iso for people to >>> use to install or just to look at the new features, that is fine But >>> from the #fedora channel the # of people installing off of the livecd >>> images are very high (if you want to search the logs i am sure they can >>> be provided, and yes the # installing useing the livecd.iso on usb is >>> high as well.) >> >> Have you done a survey asking if a 1 GB Live image won't satisfy their >> needs? > > To reverse the question - has there been any solicitation of feedback > about how many people would be adversely affected by this change? This > is the first I'd heard of it. > > I appreciate the desire to put more content on the default desktop spin > and think it would be a good thing to be able to include this sort of > material, but please be aware that this will adversely affect a number > of users (actual or potential) of fedora (and no I can't tell you how > many). > > To give you a couple of scenarios for uses this will affect: > > 1) Plenty of hardware being used today doesn't support booting from USB > and doesn't have a DVD drive. I've seen many of these machines turned > over to using linux after grinding to a halt running other OSs. > > 2) Plenty of people don't have a network conection or bandwidth cap > which would allow them to do a live install. Even my ADSL connection in > the UK wouldn't be able to do this. > > Anyone with a combination of problems 1 and 2 is now unable to easily > install F13+. Before discarding the idea of CD images all together > would it not be worth finding out how many users this might affect? We are not discarding CD images all together. If you feel there is a compelling reason to continue with a Live CD, I am afraid you will have to step up and do it. The tools are easy enough to learn and I am willing to help you or anyone else interested. Rahul -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
