Hello Everyone,

Good discussion and I concur with Oku. :)

May a consideration of the end users from India as well as other countries where infrastructure & bandwidth may not be advantageous be considered, too. :)

Sending positive Fedora 16 & 17 energy to your computers now.  :)

Thank You
Sincerely,
- David -

> To: ambassadors@lists.fedoraproject.org; zoltanh721@fedoraproject.org
> From: frankpeter2010@yahoo.com
> Date: Tue, 15 May 2012 15:24:40 +0000
> Subject: Re: [Ambassadors] Default media size
>
> Based on the sincere appeal made by Oku Onyeibo, I suggest that provision of the low-memory boot-able life CD should be made so that It would be a little easy/cheap for us african ambassadors to download.
>
> I also want to know what would be added to the media that would increase the memory space to DVD size...
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Onyeibo Oku <twohotis@gmail.com>
> Sender: ambassadors-bounces@lists.fedoraproject.org
> Date: Tue, 15 May 2012 15:47:35
> To: <zoltanh721@fedoraproject.org>; <ambassadors@lists.fedoraproject.org>
> Reply-To: ambassadors@lists.fedoraproject.org
> Subject: Re: [Ambassadors] Default media size
>
> -1
>
> please whatever decision prevails. Keep in mind, that for those in
> Africa, internet can guzzle a sizeable percentage of an average worker's
> salary. If someone is going to sponsor my internet, anything DVD sounds
> fine, ... else its terribly scary. LiveCDs are easier to download and
> come in handy for beta testing. Anything in the category of Gigs will
> definitely restrict me to release-only media.
>
> Onyeibo
>
>
> On Tue, 2012-05-15 at 16:18 +0200, Zoltan Hoppar wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I think there is one possibility. We have seen an transition, where 32
> > bit fading away into the past, and less and less user takes the 32 bit
> > version. Right now the Multi Live DVD contains four 64 bit and four 32
> > bit liveCD system. IF we sacrifice the less needed 32 bit systems,
> > then we can have DVD size, or miniDVD (1.4+ Gbyte) bootable images.
> > Also I say that we shouldn't have to forget the new primary arch
> > members like ARM, and moreover I think we should add our LiveUSB
> > generator to our livedvd, to have instant USB systems from disc.
> >
> > Zoltan
> >
> >
> > 2012/5/15 Jaroslav Reznik <jreznik@redhat.com>:
> > > Hi,
> > > as you probably know, there's a huge thread on fedora-devel
> > > regarding default media size [1] because of MiniDebugInfo and
> > > FESCo is looking what are the consequences of breaking current
> > > limit.
> > >
> > > I think the Ambassadors are stake holders here as it can influence
> > > the ability to distribute Fedora, also we're closest to our users.
> > >
> > > For EMEA there's only one limitation - we should be able fit all
> > > four spins in 32/64 bit versions to Multi Desktop Live DVD.
> > > Christoph mentioned he's willing to sacrifice Sugar offering.
> > >
> > > What about other regions? Is the CD size the must? Or we can break it?
> > > Talking about production costs of medias, users able to use different
> > > methods to install Fedora etc., enough size flash drive availability/
> > > affordability... Any thoughts?
> > >
> > > Jaroslav
> > >
> > > [1] http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/devel/2012-May/166837.html
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