[Ambassadors] Multiboot DVDs for F22 and beyond

[Truong Anh. Tuan]

----- Original Message -----
> From: "Siddhesh Poyarekar" <siddhesh.poyarekar at gmail.com>
> To: "ambassadors" <ambassadors at 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