If you watch, you can get DVD burners for about $15 USD. eg: http://slickdeals.net/permadeal/62972/newegg-liteon-external-cddvd-burner-w-lightscribe-support Or used for about $5-$10 at any flea market. On 05/09/2012 04:33 PM, drago01 wrote: > 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
