As Dan said, we've already promised CDs this cycle. In addition, yes, that forces us to be disciplined about image size. But the main issue is that we've already promised CDs. ;) On Sep 24, 2012 9:11 AM, "satch...@gmail.com" <satch...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I think CDs are obsolete technology. Even here in India, CDs are slowly > being phased out as the price of USB drives drops daily. USB drives are > reusable, install and run OSes faster and, as Chris Triantafillis points > out, are less harmful to the environment. > > If elementary is trying to be disciplined about the image size (as Ubuntu > is), then I respect that. But there's no need to adhere to such an ancient > and restrictive limit. > > On 24 September 2012 19:35, Chris Triantafillis <christriant1...@gmail.com > > wrote: > >> My opinion is that we should increase the size limit and encourage people >> use USB rather than CD... >> CD is harmfull for the enviroment too... >> >> >> 2012/9/24 Daniel Foré <dan...@elementaryos.org> >> >>> Alrighty, well if we think it'll fit, I'm down with adding more >>> languages. >>> >>> Best Regards, >>> Daniel Foré >>> >>> El sep 23, 2012, a las 10:50 p.m., Eduard Gotwig <eduardgot...@gmail.com> >>> escribió: >>> >>> Daniel Fore: >>> >>> The stuff gets compressed with squashfs to like 1/3 of the original >>> size.That means around 46/47 MB. >>> >>> 2012/9/23 Daniel Foré <dan...@elementaryos.org> >>> >>>> Currently we want to fit on a CD, so 700MB >>>> >>>> Best Regards, >>>> Daniel Foré >>>> >>>> El sep 23, 2012, a las 12:32 p.m., Chris Triantafillis < >>>> christriant1...@gmail.com> escribió: >>>> >>>> What is the size limit? >>>> >>>> 2012/9/23 Daniel Foré <dan...@elementaryos.org> >>>> >>>>> Sounds like we really don't have room for that. We have room for 50 >>>>> more MB. So maybe we can choose like 3? >>>>> >>>>> Best Regards, >>>>> Daniel Foré >>>>> >>>>> El sep 23, 2012, a las 12:25 p.m., Eduard Gotwig < >>>>> eduardgot...@gmail.com> escribió: >>>>> >>>>> I included here Russian as well, couse its used quite often: >>>>>> >>>>>> 140 MB are going to be used after this operation by apt-get : sudo >>>>>> apt-get --no-install-recommends --download-only install >>>>>> language-pack-gnome-pl language-pack-gnome-es language-pack-gnome-it >>>>>> language-pack-gnome-ru language-pack-gnome-nl language-pack-gnome-fr >>>>>> language-pack-gnome-pt language-pack-gnome-de language-pack-gnome-en >>>>>> >>>>>> When someone wants to test that, go for it and include it in your >>>>>> custom build with congrego ;) >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> 2012/9/23 Craig <webe...@gmail.com> >>>>>> >>>>>>> I think American English is pretty standard in computing, even >>>>>>> internationally. Not that it will be a serious impediment d either way. >>>>>>> On Sep 23, 2012 1:28 PM, "David Gomes" <da...@elementaryos.org> >>>>>>> wrote: >>>>>>> >>>>>>>> First of all, English and Portuguese will be a problem. How can we >>>>>>>> decide which "version" of English and Portuguese to include? Sure, >>>>>>>> Portuguese is one of the most spoken languages in the world, but it's >>>>>>>> not >>>>>>>> because of the roughly 10 million inhabitants of Portugal, it's more >>>>>>>> due to >>>>>>>> the 200 million inhabitants of Brazil. So, we'd probably include >>>>>>>> Brazillian >>>>>>>> Portuguese. >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> But English would be harder. There are more Americans than British, >>>>>>>> but a lot of people are anti-American English or so. >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> The whole move of including 8 languages. I'm not sure, I'd like to >>>>>>>> know how much space that is. >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> David "Munchor" Gomes >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> On Sun, Sep 23, 2012 at 7:21 PM, Eduard Gotwig < >>>>>>>> eduardgot...@gmail.com> wrote: >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>> 2012/9/23 Eduard Gotwig <got...@ubuntu.com> >>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>>> Hey, >>>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>>> I think about if we can add the 8 most popular languagee packs >>>>>>>>>> for GNOME to the ISO image? There is still space left. >>>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>>> These 8 languages should be the ones, that are available on our >>>>>>>>>> new website: >>>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>>> - [image: English]English >>>>>>>>>> - [image: Français]Français >>>>>>>>>> - [image: Deutsch]Deutsch >>>>>>>>>> - [image: Italiano]Italiano >>>>>>>>>> - [image: Español]Español >>>>>>>>>> - [image: Português]Português >>>>>>>>>> - [image: Polski]Polski >>>>>>>>>> - [image: Nederlands]Nederlands >>>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>>> We cant include all, becouse they take too much space I guess. >>>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>> -- >>>>>>>>> Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~elementary-translators >>>>>>>>> Post to : elementary-translat...@lists.launchpad.net >>>>>>>>> Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~elementary-translators >>>>>>>>> More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp >>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> -- >>>>>>>> Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~elementary-dev-community >>>>>>>> Post to : elementary-dev-community@lists.launchpad.net >>>>>>>> Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~elementary-dev-community >>>>>>>> More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>> -- >>>>> Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~elementary-dev-community >>>>> Post to : elementary-dev-community@lists.launchpad.net >>>>> Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~elementary-dev-community >>>>> More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> -- >>>>> Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~elementary-dev-community >>>>> Post to : elementary-dev-community@lists.launchpad.net >>>>> Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~elementary-dev-community >>>>> More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp >>>>> >>>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> -- >>>> Best Regards, >>>> Chris Triantafillis >>>> >>>> >>> >> >> >> -- >> Best Regards, >> Chris Triantafillis >> >> >> -- >> Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~elementary-dev-community >> Post to : elementary-dev-community@lists.launchpad.net >> Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~elementary-dev-community >> More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp >> >> > > -- > Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~elementary-dev-community > Post to : elementary-dev-community@lists.launchpad.net > Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~elementary-dev-community > More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp > >
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