Installing F7 by CD and not by DVD

[Antonio Olivares]

--- Rahul Sundaram <sundaram at fedoraproject.org> wrote:

> Antonio Olivares wrote:
> 
> > 
> > Who cares what Ubuntu, et.all provides. 
> 
> Apparently people do in comparisons that I see in
> this list.
> 
>   Fedora had an
> > edge before (despite that people will complain,
> I'm
> > with you Ric in this one), it allowed users to
> install
> > applications that they will surely miss/or cannot
> fit
> > on a CD.  These same folks are on dialup and do
> not
> > have a fast internet connection.  With the yum
> presto
> > plugin, maybe that changes, but still fedora had a
> big
> > advantage to pick and choose the software with the
> > multiple cd's and dvd's.  
> 
> I strongly believe that yum-presto and enabling live
> upgrades to be done 
> better is much more easier than trying to add more
> variations into the 
> pile of regular and live cd/dvd's. There is also a
> plan to evaluate 
> integrating jidgo into the release process.
> 
> > One of advantages of the LiveCD is to test the
> > hardware before you install, but it only has a
> limited
> > amount of software.  Should Fedora Board stick to
> > their guns, why not make a LiveDVD with as much
> > software as possible.  And if possible, also make
> a
> > special spin of cd isos as they had before.  This
> will
> > keep users happy and quickly forget the bad
> episodes.
> 
> This is primarily a release engineering decision.
> You have to take into 
> consideration that mirrors won't be happy with more
> and more software to 
> duplicated across variants and a torrent only
> release won't satisfy 
> everyone since torrent is not allowed by misinformed
> ISP's or complaints 
> about downloads speeds with not enough seeds in some
> instances.
> 
> At any rate more variants by default just won't
> scale at all. It causes 
> mass confusion for rel eng, QA, documentation and
> importantly end users.
> 
> Rahul
> 
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Thanks Rahul, 
   This is a better way of explaining the issues with
the multiple cd's and their effects on mirrors, ISPs,
etc. 

Regards,

Antonio 


 
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