Installing and newbies

[Bruce Marshall]

On Friday 09 May 2008, Derek Broughton wrote:
> That's simple - the majority of (k)ubuntu users apparently _still_ don't
> have all-you-can-use broadband internet connections, so that's the way the
> developers want it.  Technically, it is used preferentially simply because
> the repository has the same priority as the internet repo, and comes first
> in the sources.list.

I was always under the assumption (prolly a bad thing) that *everything* on 
the CD was installed at normal install time.   Is this not true?  This 
wouldn't include a lot of stuff... because if you're talking Gimp or 
OpenOffice, you're talking a large amount of the space on the CD.

And the reason some tradeoffs and decisions are made is that there isn't 
enough room on the CD to include all the things that people might like.