No more OOo in UNR 10.04

[Mark Fraser]

On Sunday 07 Feb 2010 19:33:56 Rashkae wrote:
> Chris Jones wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> >> Don't forget that everything still needs to fit on a single CD.
> >
> > Just thinking out loud but why ? How many machines out there have a CD
> > but not DVD drive these days.
> >
> > We've long since moved away from "everything needs to fit on a floppy",
> > maybe its time to move from CDs to DVDs...
> >
> > Just wondering.
> 
> I'll second that.. I would love to see Ubuntu move to install DVD's
> distributed by torrent with a larger set of included software, including
> gimp, OO, Dial-up, several others.... but I think this particular snafu
> has more to do with the capabilities of the target machines than it does
> install media.

Don't forget that most, if not all netbooks do not come with an optical drive. 
Which means that you'd have to put the ISO onto a memory stick to install and 
therefore can be larger than the 650MB of a CD.

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