Installing and newbies

[Derek Broughton]

Bruce Marshall wrote:

> 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.

I don't think everything _is_ installed, but even if it is, people may still
remove and want to reinstall apps.
-- 
derek