Sorry if this caused any confusion, I replied to the wrong list. On Thu, Jan 14, 2010 at 2:54 PM, Jonathan Carter (highvoltage) <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Charl > > On Thu, Jan 14, 2010 at 2:27 PM, Charl Wentzel > <[email protected]> wrote: >> I'm busy downloading Edubuntu 9.10 for a friend and got a shock when I >> noticed that it is now a 3.3GB DVD download. I've rather enjoyed the >> fact that Ubuntu downloads have always been CD-sized. >> >> Despite the band-width shock, I'm quite interested in what they've added >> to make it such a sizeable download. Anybody using it that could fill >> me in? I assume it is no longer just an add-on CD... DVD? > > Initially, Edubuntu was very similar to the Ubuntu installation disc, > the difference was basically that you could install LTSP from it out > of the box and also have educational apps shipped with it. The problem > was that the Edubuntu project (of which I'm part of) already needed to > remove software and language packs from the CD to make space for the > Edubuntu related apps. > > A few releases ago Edubuntu changed to an add-on CD to Ubuntu. This > made it possible to put more things on the CD and have less > duplication, however, users were very unhappy with this and wanted a > turn-key solution, so we decided to go back to a full installation, > and this time a DVD so that we don't have the same space issues. > People wanted a GUI install, and they wanted to be able to install > LTSP automatically. Unfortunately LTSP can't be installed from a > LiveCD yet, it's something we're working on and we hope to have it > ready for Lucid. As a result, the Karmic DVD basically ships > everything twice, packages for the alternate CD and the LiveCD > squashfs image. > > Lucid will include more packages but once the alternate install > section is dropped the total size should be under 2GB at least. The > current situation is definitely less than ideal but it will certainly > get better. > > -Jonathan >
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