On Mon, Dec 29, 2008 at 10:51:41AM +0100, Mattias Wadenstein wrote: > On Mon, 29 Dec 2008, Frans Pop wrote: > >On Thursday 04 December 2008, Frank Lin PIAT wrote: > >>I have noticed that Ubuntu only advertises CD1 on their download page. > >>I think it is really sensible: The CD-1 contains Xwindow, so a [new] > >>user gets a usable desktop... even if he/she face network connectivity > >>problem. > > > >Actually I think Ubunty advertises a DVD, not a CD. If that is correct > >then your argument is invalid. And Debian is not Ubuntu anyway. > > I also mirror Ubuntu, and they advertise a single CD per "flavour" or > whatever they call it. That is one "desktop" (gnome), one KDE, one server, > etc CD image for normal installations. If you want packages outside the > default install you have to either have networking or dig around to find > the DVDs etc.
This is correct. Ubuntu DVDs are built but not especially strongly advertised. CDs are the major focus. (As Frans noted, this is a bit of a red herring for Debian anyway. Offering a single CD is a major focus for Ubuntu; with the size of software these days, you can't just magic that up out of nowhere, you have to have a significant part of the project knowing that that's the target.) -- Colin Watson (Ubuntu CD image maintainer) [cjwat...@ubuntu.com] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-boot-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
