I think Fedora should look at the CD crisis as an opportunity rather
than the need to axe a lot of packages in a hurry.
First, the world is moving towards DVD. It's an absolute joy to
install Fedora off a DVD, although I've often found that process of
downloading an manipulating a disk image that big can be challenging.
(BitTorrent anyone?)
It's linked off of the fedora download page:
http://torrent.linux.duke.edu
My AMD64 has an optical drive that reads and writes every CD and DVD
format (other than double-sided) that cost about $100; in the long
term, the majority of users are going to enjoy that convenience.
DVDs are available but:
1. thousands of users don't have them/can't afford them
2. many can't boot from them even if they did have them
-sv
