Proposal to drop Ubuntu alternate CDs for 12.10

Andrea Corbellini andrea.corbellini at ubuntu.com
Fri Aug 31 05:15:28 UTC 2012


On 30/08/12 11:51, a.grandi at gmail.com wrote:
> yeah the available space would be a problem, but...you weren't
> planning to discontinue the usual ~700Mb CD in place of 1Gb ISOs to
> use them on USB keys?
> I think that using a CD to install Ubuntu is even more uncommon than
> using USB. It's also slower.
>
> What do you think about?

Having a bigger image won't just limit the set of devices, but will also 
make the download much, much slower.



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