fedora + mono, any plans for ubuntu?

[Gustavo Franco]

On 1/10/06, Erast Benson <erast at gnusolaris.org> wrote:
> On Tue, 2006-01-10 at 17:58 +0100, Sebastien Bacher wrote:
> > Le mardi 10 janvier 2006 à 11:42 -0500, Matthew Nicholson a écrit :
> > > I'm sorry. i meant, to include mono/mono-applications on the default
> > > install. such as beagle, banshee, f-spot, etc. to "include" mono, not
> > > just have it in the repo's. sorry for the confusion.
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> > A part of those are to main already, the default installation is an
> > another issue because the place on the CD is quite "expensive"...
>
> But why not ship DVD ISO instead? It is rapidly becoming very cheap
> these days and almost any PC now have a DVD drive.
>
> We actually thinking about releasing Nexenta OS Alpha 2 in DVD-only ISOs
> since we want to include Sun Java/JRE, Mono, KDE and GNOME on the same
> InstallCD media. Though we not positively sure about that yet..

You need to consider where DVDs readers are cheap and where (in the
world) new PCs are being sold including them. If it's in USA and
Europe and your user base is just there, go ahead, if not you will
need to stick with plain old CDs, publishing bigger (DVD) images too.
Debian and Ubuntu do the right thing atm, IMHO.

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Gustavo Franco