OT: What's the deal with Ubuntu?

[Paul Howarth]

On Fri, 2005-05-20 at 08:37 +0100, THUFIR HAWAT wrote:
> On 5/11/05, Rahul Sundaram <sundaram at redhat.com> wrote:
> ...
> > Point is that Fedora requires two (not three of four)  CD's while 
> > ubuntu requires one for a comparable installation. Rest of the 
> > packages can be moved into extras or split up into categories. 
> > Discussions are being done in fedora devel list.  We can expect 
> > to see major changes by Fedora Core 5
> ...
> 
> why should any install of any distribution require more than one cd? 
> If most users are downloading either multiple cd or dvd .iso's, then
> they are wasting their time and bandwith unless they use everything on
> those downloads.
> 
> all anyone needs is the "minimal," although, of course, what is and
> isn't minimal is contentious.  the rest should be installed with yum,
> or emerge, or foo, or whatever.
> 
> Of course, my rant presuposes an internet connection.

Thank you for debunking your own argument :-)

Everyone still on the end of a slow dialup connection will know well the
advantages of having everything on CD/DVD.

Paul.
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Paul Howarth <paul at city-fan.org>