--- Rahul Sundaram <sundaram@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Antonio Olivares wrote: > > > > > Who cares what Ubuntu, et.all provides. > > Apparently people do in comparisons that I see in > this list. > > Fedora had an > > edge before (despite that people will complain, > I'm > > with you Ric in this one), it allowed users to > install > > applications that they will surely miss/or cannot > fit > > on a CD. These same folks are on dialup and do > not > > have a fast internet connection. With the yum > presto > > plugin, maybe that changes, but still fedora had a > big > > advantage to pick and choose the software with the > > multiple cd's and dvd's. > > I strongly believe that yum-presto and enabling live > upgrades to be done > better is much more easier than trying to add more > variations into the > pile of regular and live cd/dvd's. There is also a > plan to evaluate > integrating jidgo into the release process. > > > One of advantages of the LiveCD is to test the > > hardware before you install, but it only has a > limited > > amount of software. Should Fedora Board stick to > > their guns, why not make a LiveDVD with as much > > software as possible. And if possible, also make > a > > special spin of cd isos as they had before. This > will > > keep users happy and quickly forget the bad > episodes. > > This is primarily a release engineering decision. > You have to take into > consideration that mirrors won't be happy with more > and more software to > duplicated across variants and a torrent only > release won't satisfy > everyone since torrent is not allowed by misinformed > ISP's or complaints > about downloads speeds with not enough seeds in some > instances. > > At any rate more variants by default just won't > scale at all. It causes > mass confusion for rel eng, QA, documentation and > importantly end users. > > Rahul > > -- > fedora-list mailing list > fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx > To unsubscribe: > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list > Thanks Rahul, This is a better way of explaining the issues with the multiple cd's and their effects on mirrors, ISPs, etc. Regards, Antonio ____________________________________________________________________________________ Don't get soaked. Take a quick peak at the forecast with the Yahoo! Search weather shortcut. http://tools.search.yahoo.com/shortcuts/#loc_weather
