FC5T2 ready for even a test release?

[Rahul Sundaram]

Peter Jones wrote:

>On Fri, 2006-01-20 at 09:47 +0530, Rahul Sundaram wrote:
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>>>There's nothing magic about 4 CDs - it's just a reality check that says 
>>>"hey, we are growing with no end in sight". It's not the size that's the 
>>>problem - it's the endless growth.
>>> 
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>>If we are fighting endless growth, we should be defining what core 
>>really means and then trim core to meet this goal which would result in 
>>a single CD
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>This is just picking a different arbitrary and extremely ephemeral size
>limitation.  So now I'll have a go at it, just to demonstrate how banal
>this whole line of reasoning is:
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>To use our desktop without much pain, you realistically need a lot of
>ram, a pretty good video card, and a relatively fast CPU.  Any computer
>with all of these can surely include a DVD drive.
>  
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They could but it is additional cost to bear. DVD drives especially when 
introduced into a new market is much more costlier than a CD drive. You 
will have to take into consideration that Fedora is being redistributed 
all over the world including developing countries with extremely limited 
budgets. I have been involved with non-profit associations, educational 
institutions etc where a DVD drive cost can easily exceed a quarterly 
budget. If we are excluding these people we are limiting our audience 
drastically. One of the other things that needs to happen is a low 
resource economy edition of Fedora. That is something I am planning out 
already.

-- 
Rahul 

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