Entering the DVD age...

[seth vidal]

On Tue, 2005-03-01 at 09:06 -0500, Paul A Houle wrote:

>    I think Fedora should look at the CD crisis as an opportunity rather
>than the need to axe a lot of packages in a hurry.
>
>    First,  the world is moving towards DVD.  It's an absolute joy to
>install Fedora off a DVD,  although I've often found that process of
>downloading an manipulating a disk image that big can be challenging. 
>(BitTorrent anyone?)


It's linked off of the fedora download page:
http://torrent.linux.duke.edu 


>    My AMD64 has an optical drive that reads and writes every CD and DVD
>format (other than double-sided) that cost about $100;  in the long
>term,  the majority of users are going to enjoy that convenience.


DVDs are available but:
1. thousands of users don't have them/can't afford them
2. many can't boot from them even if they did have them

-sv

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