Installing F7 by CD and not by DVD

[David Boles]

Rahul Sundaram wrote:
> Antonio Olivares wrote:
>> --- Rahul Sundaram <sundaram at fedoraproject.org> wrote:
>>
>>> Antonio Olivares wrote:
>>>> Rahul,
>>>>
>>>>   Also keep in mind that Fedora should not be
>>>> competing with Ubuntu. 
>>> Did I ever say it has to? I am not the one doing the
>>> comparisons. Other folks are. All I am pointing is that not all
>>> packages are available in the media in the distribution that Fedora
>>> is being
>>> compared to and I think it's a valid point
>>>
>> No, you did not say that it has to.   However the
>> spins generated were attempted to compete with Ubuntu
>> + Ubuntu Family. 
> 
> It would be better if people actually asked instead of continuously
> assuming things like that. It was done because Fedora users kept asking
> for it. Go look at the archives for the number of times people have
> asked for Live CD's. So here is why the spins make sense for Fedora:
> 
> Before the merge, Fedora Core was available in the media and Fedora
> Extras was not. Fedora Live CD's were a repeatedly requested feature too.
> 
> So the "Fedora" spin was created to provide a good upgrade path and
> similar experience for users used to previous Fedora Core releases. When
> live images was created it doesn't have space to hold all the packages
> and a limited sub set with GNOME was created. Since there is a focus on
> enabling KDE integrating to be better someone volunteered to create a
> KDE Live images which was accepted.
> 
> Since all the tools to create a distribution and live images are
> available as Free and open source software in the Fedora repository
> anyone can create their own custom spins and that has become a highlight
> for this release.
> 
> Nothing to do with competing with any distribution.
> 
> Rahul

Rahul, We have an expression where I come from - "Damned if you. Damned if
you don't."  ;-)


-- 

  David

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