On Tue, 2005-11-29 at 10:24 -0500, Jeff Spaleta wrote: > On 11/29/05, Paul A Houle <ph18@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Hardly true. > > While I think he overstates the current situation by extrapolating his > personal experience, at some point though the ubiquity of dvd drives > will be true. I think we can hold-off on this debate until dell stops > offering models without atleast dvd read support. Dell still offers > dvd-less models in its home and home office value lines. On its N > series "open source friendly" every option in the customize menu has > atleast dvd read support... so the tipping point might be closer than > either you or I would like. > > At some point it will make sense to drop the cdrom images and produce > only the dvd image. Just like it made sense to drop the i486 kernel. > Once Dell makes dvd-read support compulsory for all its shipping > products its probably within 2 years (3~4 Core releases) after that > cdrom install images with be deprecated. I'll have to go out and buy a > $10 dvd burner at that point. Sorry for being OT, but why do you use Dell as a Milestone? While Dell is the biggest US desktop supplier, it hold less then 18% of the global desktop market. In Europe and Asia, Dell is almost non-existent. If Dell chooses to produce low-end DVD-less machines, this their prerogative. Fedora must not make decisions based on a single manufacturer. I do agree on not dropping the CD images, just yet, though... Gilboa > > -jef > -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
