livecds in the future

[Jesse Keating]

On Mon, 2009-11-23 at 15:51 -0500, Ben Williams wrote:
> If release engineering would like to release liveusb.iso for people to 
> use to install or just to look at the new features, that is fine But 
> from the #fedora channel the # of people installing off of the livecd 
> images are very high (if you want to search the logs i am sure they can 
> be provided, and yes the # installing useing the livecd.iso on usb is 
> high as well.)
> 
> the current livecd isos need to continue (yes i know the size sux, but 
> not everyone has highspeed internet thats why they are downloading the 
> livecd and not the dvd)
> 
> I say if you want to offer more choice, that is great, but do not shoot 
> yourself in the foot yet, for f13 we can always try a liveusb image as 
> well as the livecd iso if someone is willing to help release engineering 
> make this happen so much the better for all of us
> 
> if the people wanting a localized spin step up and do and maintain one 
> for your locale.
> 
> -- 
> Ben Williams
> Windows-Linux Specialist
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> 

Given the amount of bandwidth it takes to keep a Fedora install up to
date, the jump from 700M to 1.4G is not that big, and on par with the
other bandwidth requirements of Fedora.

For the really network starved, there is netinst.iso where you start
with 200M~ and only download the specific packages you wish to install,
minimally about 200 packages.

-- 
Jesse Keating
Fedora -- Freedom² is a feature!
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