DVD or CD

[Schiz0]

On Fri, May 30, 2008 at 12:03 PM, elmo <elmo at ne.rr.com> wrote:
> I notice that 8.04 is available in CD and DVD. It's obvious that a DVD
> has greater data  capacity but what kind of data does the DVD have that
> would make it preferable to the CD?
>
> elmo
>

As far as I know, the DVD has a bunch of extra stuff that a typical
desktop user wouldn't need. For example, it has a bunch of the
packages that AREN'T installed by default. It also has the server
edition of Ubuntu, as well as the Alternate-CD version of it. And some
other stuff that I forgot.