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From: "Siddhesh Poyarekar"
<siddhesh.poyarekar(a)gmail.com>
To: "ambassadors" <ambassadors(a)lists.fedoraproject.org>
Sent: Friday, December 19, 2014 10:45:06 AM
Subject: [Ambassadors] Multiboot DVDs for F22 and beyond
We had multiboot DVDs earlier[1] and I know that we had burned and
distributed multiboot DVDs in the past in India. They are a great
idea for purely economical purposes because it allows us to utilize
all of the space in a single layer DVD. The other advantage of doing
this is that it allows us to distribute spins in the same DVD, which
is great for India since we have a fairly large KDE user (and
contributor?) community here and definitely a fair number of XFCE
users (/me raises hand!). Finally, the clincher for cost is that
burning 4000 images of the same type is significantly cheaper than
burning 1000 images of 4 types.
The only problem I see in all this is that it probably breaks the
notion of separate products for some people, but it won't be the first
time that multiple products were burned into the same media. The
other limitation is coming up with standard artwork for such a DVD
that matches the artwork of the rest of the media. I don't know how
difficult that would be to do for F22 for example and will need help
from someone who does. I can work on getting the image ready and
hopefully an SOP for future releases, which seems to be missing in the
wiki page.
Of course, there have been opinions that DVDs are passe and we should
either distribute USB keys or some mechanism which gives users a URL
to pull images from. That is not a valid opinion for India IMO (and I
am sure, a lot of developing countries) where high speed broadband is
still not common. Of course, a multiboot image can be burned on a USB
stick too, which again gives us more value for money on the USB keys.
I think this is a really nice idea. However, there may be some technical
issues which stop us to do it earlier (need to be checked?)
There are three products now. Can we put Workstation and Spins together?
how about Server, and even Cloud product?
The best case is we can mix them all in a media.
Kind regards,
Tuan