On 07/20/2007 02:58 AM, Stephan Kulow wrote: > Am Donnerstag 19 Juli 2007 schrieb David Bolt: > >> [1] It's still going to be useful to add extra packages/patterns and >> remove unwanted (non-OSS?) packages/patterns, as well as adding extra, >> third party, repositories. >> > Actually this is very likely to be the goal of further releases: make the CD > the installation medium of first choice and provide the DVD as collection of > repositories and extra patterns. IMO this will be a big mistake. Installation should be, must be, made a simple as possible, and that implies the user should be presented with as few physical media as possible. If I buy the commercial box, the complete distribution should be included in it -- OSS packages, non-OSS packages, as well as all the sources -- all of it on, as I said, as few physical media as possible. If I download the images instead, I should be able to end up with the same set of 3 DVDs, and should not have to burn a bunch of (soon to be obsolete?) CDs that contain a minuscule fraction of the total distribution. If that is what I wanted, I would fetch just a single, much smaller, image, and do an ftp installation.
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