Received ShipIt CDs!

[Nate]

Ouattara Aziz wrote:
> Alexander Skwar a écrit :
>> Matthew East schrieb:
>>
>>> Only the desktop CD is shipped now because shipping two CDs was too
>>> expensive. You'll have to download the alternative install cd.
>
>>
>> Giving users the options to select between the two types would
>> also be too expensive, wouldn't it? 
>
> is it ? I really thought it consists in just adding an option on the 
> install procedure. Since all the packages they're based on are (seems 
> to be) on the desktop cd. Or maybe I don't know anything about that ....
>
Eh... the alternate CD is somewhat different from the Desktop CD. The 
Desktop CD's LiveCD functionality takes up space. Because the alternate 
CD doesn't need to use up that space for LiveCD functionality, the 
developers were able to put other useful things on there, like the 
ability to recover an installation. Because of this different use of 
extra space, the alternate CD  is better for some things (the heavy 
linux user), while the desktop CD is better for others (the new person 
who justs want to check this ubuntu thing out).