Yum update from Fedora 14 -> 15 WARNING! UPDATE

Joe Zeff joe at zeff.us
Tue May 31 17:33:11 UTC 2011


On 05/31/2011 02:58 AM, Timothy Murphy wrote:
> Incidentally, isn't it time the Fedora developers
> gave up this passion for DVDs?
> Does anyone burn DVDs to install Fedora today?
> Half the new machines I see don't have DVD drives anyway.
> Surely everyone has a big enough USB stick?
> Why not be honest, and take that as the default?
>

Not everybody has a brand-new machine.  Not everybody even has one that 
can boot off of USB.  I can remember when Fedora stopped providing a CD 
version and I didn't have a DVD drive.  (Nor, I might add, the money to 
buy one because they were still quite expensive.)  I had to find a 
third-party website that had broken the DVD up into CDs.  Just because 
you don't like DVDs doesn't mean that they (and CDs) aren't still 
important to a large fraction of Fedora users.


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