On 31 May 2011 18:33, Joe Zeff joe@zeff.us wrote:
On 05/31/2011 02:58 AM, Timothy Murphy wrote:
Incidentally, isn't it time the Fedora developers gave up this passion for DVDs? Does anyone burn DVDs to install Fedora today? Half the new machines I see don't have DVD drives anyway. Surely everyone has a big enough USB stick? Why not be honest, and take that as the default?
Not everybody has a brand-new machine. Not everybody even has one that can boot off of USB. I can remember when Fedora stopped providing a CD version and I didn't have a DVD drive. (Nor, I might add, the money to buy one because they were still quite expensive.) I had to find a third-party website that had broken the DVD up into CDs. Just because you don't like DVDs doesn't mean that they (and CDs) aren't still important to a large fraction of Fedora users.
I think you'll find Timothy said "take that as the default", not "stop releasing the DVD version". I for one would like more prominence to the USB image and methods of creating it on the Fedora install pages, just because a tleast two of the machines I generally install it on don't have a CD/DVD drive (all of our Office machines lack them).