Dropping Gimp from the live cd

drago01 drago01 at gmail.com
Wed Aug 5 14:58:00 UTC 2009


On Wed, Aug 5, 2009 at 4:53 PM, Nicu Buculei<nicu_fedora at nicubunu.ro> wrote:
> On 08/05/2009 05:34 PM, Seth Vidal wrote:
>>
>> On Wed, 5 Aug 2009, Matthias Clasen wrote:
>>>
>>> I am going to seriously push for targetting a 1GB usb stick for F13.
>>> Continuing to squeeze ever-shrinking amounts of useful content onto a CD
>>> is a dead-end. Localized spins and lang-packs could delay the
>>> inevitable, but rpm seems unable to give us a working lang-pack
>>> solution...
>>
>> a 1gb usb stick seems not-unreasonable. Jumping to a DVD seems like a
>> larger leap, to me.
>
> 1GB USB sticks may hold enough content for a good user experience, but from
> a cost perspective DVDs, even if not full, may prove a better solution: we
> give away an important number of CDs at various events. Replacing those with
> USB sticks would cost a lot more but replacing them with DVDs will cost
> about the same.
>
> So probably a good middle ground is to target the spin size-wise at 1GB
> sticks and distribute it on DVDs.

We have hybrid images now, so you should be able to just burn it on a DVD.




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