----- Original Message ----- > On Wed, 2012-05-09 at 16:07 -0400, Jaroslav Reznik 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... 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. > > > > 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? > > Even if all of your objections are true, and who knows, they might > be: > we already do provide alternatives. The Live media is not the only > install media. Yep, it's not the only way, we even have our bigger offering already. And yeah, let's break CD rule but first - let ask if it still apply or not. Maybe it's my imagination and 3rd world is not anymore interested in this :) For example to Africa, we even do not ship CDs but DVDs - so at least, most people have a DVD-ROM drive :) The reason is - network bandwidth and Installation DVD fits more packages... R. > - ajax > > -- > devel mailing list > devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
