On Wed, May 9, 2012 at 10:07 PM, Jaroslav Reznik <jreznik@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> I know I've said this before, but: we should break the CD size >> barrier >> precisely so people can't burn things to CDs. If you must burn to >> optical media, do yourself a favor and burn a DVD, the reduced seek >> time >> is entirely worth it. > > I'd like to break CD limit too but we should not forgot there are users > for which CD is top technology from dreams and we have a lot of these > users among some countries... Where are the numbers to back this nonsense up? A DVD burner costs ~12 € ... and any computer that old isn't really that capable of running fedora reasonably anyway. > For me personally CD is history, even > DVD, same 1 GB flash drive. We can afford it. But some people can't > and are our users thanks to the ability to get a cheap OS, that can > run on cheap HW and is still modern. See above. > The question is - how many people will be affected? Or should we > provide some fallback option - stripped down CD media size image? And > make the bigger one primary one? Well anyone can create a specialized spin for ancient hardware, but we should not restrict ourselves because of ancient hardware. -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
