On Wed, May 9, 2012 at 5:22 PM, Jaroslav Reznik wrote: > ----- 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... > An alternative would be to ship a live DVD, right? How hard is it to create a live DVD? Why do we not leave the decision of choosing between a live CD and a live DVD as the live image, to the spin maintainers? Even better, (hypothetically) a spin can choose to have both a live CD and a live DVD. Orcan -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
