[Oneiric-Topic] Integrate unity-2d/Qt / install media space

[Evan Broder]

On Thu, Apr 7, 2011 at 1:06 AM, Martin Pitt <martin.pitt at ubuntu.com> wrote:
> In the last years we fell victim to an ever-growing set of language
> runtimes and toolkits, but I realize that getting rid of each of them
> is hard. So if we want to keep adding new features without removing
> others, we might also eventually reconsider moving to 1 GB USB images
> and entirely stop shipping CD images (on mirrors/shop/Loco
> distribution, etc.) This would be something I would hate to do, but it
> seems reality is against our original design goals :-)

While I like that the 700M CD image gives us a physical (as opposed to
more or less arbitrary) limitation on the size of our images, another
benefit of not shipping CD images would be performance. Booting Ubuntu
off of an actual CD is impressively slow these days; using a USB drive
instead would give first-time users a better experience.

- Evan