Windows FOSS on the Live CD -- the OOo2 question

Pete Ryland pdr at pdr.cx
Wed Feb 22 14:48:43 GMT 2006


On Wed, Feb 22, 2006 at 03:25:16PM +0200, Phillip Pare wrote:
> Why does one have to stick to a live CD and not go for a live DVD? The 
> cost of DVD media has indeed come down considerably and then you have 
> 4.7 GB to play with or 9.4 GB if the install disk is also a DVD. With 
> some of the extra space you could even include much more stuff from the 
> repositories and so make life easier for people in countries where 
> bandwidth is still very expensive.

It probably so happens that the people with limited bandwidth have a high
correlation with the people without DVD capability.

Pete



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