CD and DVD ISO images

[Mikkel L. Ellertson]

Matthew Saltzman wrote:
> On Wed, 2008-01-23 at 13:04 +0800, Ed Greshko wrote:
>> John Summerfield wrote:
>>> My proposal addresses the cases of no DVD drive but CD, and no good 
>>> networking.
>> In that case I'm still suggesting that fedora is not the wisest choice of 
>> distro.
> 
> Why not?  And who are you to make that decision for me?
> 
> I like cutting-edge applications and dev tools.  I'm used to RH admin
> tools.  My 1GHz T-Bird  is acceptably (though not blindingly) fast with
> F8, for the things I use it for.  The 500MHz P-III in my closet is an
> adequate home print/backup/network server with F8.  Having all my
> machines running the same version of the OS is a great convenience.  The
> only issue is I need a DVD drive someplace so I can do network installs.
> I happen to have one in the house[1], but if I didn't and I lived
> further out in the country (many people out here still have no DSL or
> cable service!), I'd be SOL.
> 
> [1] So far, about the only thing it gets used for is upgrading Fedora.
> 
Nobody is making a decision for you. What is being suggested is that 
Fedora is the wrong choice if you do not have good networking, or 
more specifically, a good Internet connection. Fedora changes too 
fast to try to keep up with if you do not have a fast Internet 
connection. You might manage it on dialup, but you would be tying up 
a phone line for hours at a time. (Update over night?) So you are 
loosing most of the advantages of using Fedora. Add to this the fact 
that the Fedora DVD is less then 1/3 of the packages available from 
the official Fedora repos, even before you add in the third party 
repos, and not having a good Internet connection becomes more of a 
problem.

 From what I see, Fedora is geared towards having a good Internet 
connection. The way updates and adding software is handled is a good 
indication of this. So even after you get Fedora installed, you are 
going to run into problems if you do not have a good Internet 
connection. This sure sounds like using the wrong tool for the job. 
So it is a valid observation that using Fedora is this case is 
probably not the best choice.

I would love to be able to run Fedora on an old Pentium 75mhz system 
with 40Mb of RAM and an 800Mb hard drive. But it is not practical. A 
better choice is one of the distributions designed to run on low-end 
hardware. The best choice, if I want to keep using it, is to use it 
for something like a firewall, router, or wireless bridge. Maybe a 
print server as well.

Mikkel
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