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On Tue, 2005-03-01 at 09:06 -0500, Paul A Houle wrote:
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<FONT COLOR="#000000"> I think Fedora should look at the CD crisis as an opportunity rather</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">than the need to axe a lot of packages in a hurry.</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000"> First, the world is moving towards DVD. It's an absolute joy to</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">install Fedora off a DVD, although I've often found that process of</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">downloading an manipulating a disk image that big can be challenging. </FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">(BitTorrent anyone?)</FONT>
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It's linked off of the fedora download page:<BR>
<A HREF="http://torrent.linux.duke.edu">http://torrent.linux.duke.edu</A> <BR>
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<FONT COLOR="#000000"> My AMD64 has an optical drive that reads and writes every CD and DVD</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">format (other than double-sided) that cost about $100; in the long</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">term, the majority of users are going to enjoy that convenience</FONT>.
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DVDs are available but:<BR>
1. thousands of users don't have them/can't afford them<BR>
2. many can't boot from them even if they did have them<BR>
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