Fedora Present and Future: a Fedora.next 2014 Update (Part I, "Why?")

[Timothy Murphy]

Ed Greshko wrote:

> Does anybody nowadays actually burn CDs or DVDs?

> Yes.....  The BIOS on many of the machines I encounter don't support
> booting from USB.

How old are they?

Assuming they are very old, would it not be more rational
for the documentation to assume that the user 
was at a reasonably new machine,
and add a section or appendix to deal with the case of an ancient BIOS?

In my view, if 90% of users are going to use option A,
then 90% of the user documentation should deal with that case.
Treating all options equally is a recipe for verbosity.

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Timothy Murphy  
e-mail: gayleard /at/ eircom.net
School of Mathematics, Trinity College, Dublin 2, Ireland