On Thu, 8 Mar 2007, Jesse Keating wrote:
> Here's a constructive idea: perhaps someone should
investigate the price
> difference on the cost of creating DVD media vs. CD media. To me it
> sounds like you think it's zero. I haven't checked for a while though;
> perhaps Greg knows as he is getting media prepared?
Perhaps he does. Lets CC him and find out.
Good thing I'm already on the list, as your efforts to CC: me at the wrong
address would have been a failure. :)
There is a slight difference in cost between CD and DVD production -- but
any difference will be well within budget. The issue will not be "which
will cost more to produce, a CD or a DVD?" but rather: "which is better
for our target audience, a CD or a DVD?"
>> The functionality of our LiveCD will only get worse over time
if we
>> stick to CD size. Perhaps we do only DVD live images for multiarch
>> platforms. The tool set should still allow for creating a single arch
>> x86_64 CD, but that isn't something I want to publish as any sort of
>> official Fedora release.
>
> Well, I can hear it's certainly not my call so I'll just be quiet.
It's not my call alone either. Ultimately it is the Fedora Board's call
if we can't all come to an agreement.
Can somebody recapitulate the heart of the argument in, oh, a paragraph?
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