Proposal for solving CD Size problems

[Michael R. Head]

On Tue, 2006-09-26 at 16:19 -0500, Steven Harms wrote:
> Since this discussion is all about people without dvd drives, at what
> point do we assume they have enough processing power to decompress the
> image hundreds of times per session?  I mean if they don't have a dvd
> drive, then they probably have < 256MB of ram, so when things are
> swapped in and out of ram massive decompressing will occur, and again
> the same goes with their processing power.  

I'll point out here that server-oriented machines may come only with a
CD reader. I recently was able to install Linux on a new server we got
here only because there was a CD installer. Of course, the server
install disc is (hopefully) out of the purview of the the CD->DVD
transition.

I'll also point out that someone recently argued in an Ubuntu review
that delivering a CD install by default sends the message that people
are more likely to have broadband than a DVD reader (assuming that there
are a number of packages that users might want to install that are not
going to be on the Desktop CD). 

mike


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Michael R. Head <burner at suppressingfire.org>
suppressingfire.org
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