Distribution sizes

[Mateusz Marzantowicz]

On 09.10.2013 21:46, Chuck Forsberg WA7KGX wrote:
> When operating system distributions had to fit on a spool of paper tape,
> 144000 bytes was a limit to worry about.
> 
> With DVD blanks selling for little more than the price of CD blanks,
> is there a need to limit the size of Live disros to 700k?
> 
> With double layer DVD blanks and 8 GB USB drives coming down in cost,
> is there a need for a 4 GB limit?
> 
> With netinst able to rad an ISO file on a hard drive, is there any limit?
> 
> Perhaps the solution is a 4 GB install DVD with Xfce and no Gnome/KDE.
> 
> On the giant economy size ISO please include Xfce, server and web server
> as installable packages alongside the Dev Sys main choice.
> 
> The desire here is to minimize the downtime for installing Fedora on a
> server
> that is performing useful work.
> 

Every single bit counts. Event if you have DVD, why should everyone
waste time and money for downloading or processing unnecessary data?
Ideally, there would be no DVDs at all, only netinstall images
containing anaconda. Then you'll download all other software only when
it's needed. But some people need network independent install media
which must be as small as possible but still useful.



Mateusz Marzantowicz