Fwd: Live ISOs that don't fit on CDs

Valent Turkovic valent.turkovic at gmail.com
Sun Mar 14 20:44:32 UTC 2010


On Sun, Mar 14, 2010 at 7:21 PM, John J. McDonough <wb8rcr at arrl.net> wrote:
> On Sun, 2010-03-14 at 19:07 +0100, Valent Turkovic wrote:
>> It is finally time to switch from CD to DVD? Blank media are almost
>> the same price and should be available world wide. Any reasons not to
>> switch from CD to DVD?
>
> I think we have.  A little unfortunate, though.  Those machines that
> don't have DVD drives are probably the very same machines that can't
> boot from USB, so a lot of older boxes are left out in the cold.
>
> On the other hand, DVD drives are pretty cheap these days, and as you
> point out, the difference in media price is negligible.
>
> --McD

It's harder and harder for Fedora to keep iso under 700MB, when will
be the time to drop CD iso? Or provide mini destop live CD and
expanded desktop dvd version?

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