Re: proposal: drop optical media from release criteria

2019-07-08 Thread Matthew Miller
On Mon, Jul 08, 2019 at 09:02:12AM -0700, Adam Williamson wrote: > > Yes. In the midst of a home move, so I'll try to get to this ... soonish. If > > I don't, and you remember before I do, pleaes remind me :) > Ahoy Matt, this is your reminder :) After I get through all these flock talks! :) --

Re: proposal: drop optical media from release criteria

2019-07-08 Thread Adam Williamson
On Sun, 2018-11-18 at 11:15 -0500, Matthew Miller wrote: > On Fri, Nov 16, 2018 at 03:20:10PM -0800, Adam Williamson wrote: > > On Thu, 2018-09-20 at 14:16 -0400, Matthew Miller wrote: > > > On Thu, Sep 20, 2018 at 01:49:20PM -0400, Matthew Miller wrote: > > > > Justification: > > > >

Re: proposal: drop optical media from release criteria

2018-11-18 Thread Matthew Miller
On Fri, Nov 16, 2018 at 03:20:10PM -0800, Adam Williamson wrote: > On Thu, 2018-09-20 at 14:16 -0400, Matthew Miller wrote: > > On Thu, Sep 20, 2018 at 01:49:20PM -0400, Matthew Miller wrote: > > > Justification: > > >

Re: proposal: drop optical media from release criteria

2018-11-16 Thread Adam Williamson
On Thu, 2018-09-20 at 14:16 -0400, Matthew Miller wrote: > On Thu, Sep 20, 2018 at 01:49:20PM -0400, Matthew Miller wrote: > > Justification: > > http://newsthump.com/2018/05/21/man-decides-to-keep-box-of-cables-hes-has-since-2002-for-another-year/ > > More seriously: I don't think there are any

Re: proposal: drop optical media from release criteria

2018-09-23 Thread Robert Moskowitz
On 9/22/18 4:48 PM, Adam Williamson wrote: On Sat, 2018-09-22 at 11:06 -0600, Chris Murphy wrote: On Fri, Sep 21, 2018 at 11:30 AM Adam Williamson wrote: Yes, frankly. Not a lot of testers even keep a DVD-RW drive and media around any more. It takes like a half hour just to write all the

Re: proposal: drop optical media from release criteria

2018-09-22 Thread Adam Williamson
On Sat, 2018-09-22 at 11:06 -0600, Chris Murphy wrote: > On Fri, Sep 21, 2018 at 11:30 AM Adam Williamson > wrote: > > > Yes, frankly. Not a lot of testers even keep a DVD-RW drive and media > > around any more. It takes like a half hour just to write all the media > > for testing, then another

Re: proposal: drop optical media from release criteria

2018-09-22 Thread Chris Murphy
On Fri, Sep 21, 2018 at 11:30 AM Adam Williamson wrote: > Yes, frankly. Not a lot of testers even keep a DVD-RW drive and media > around any more. It takes like a half hour just to write all the media > for testing, then another few hours to run complete installs from them > all (since optical

Re: proposal: drop optical media from release criteria

2018-09-21 Thread stan
On Fri, 21 Sep 2018 14:56:07 -0400 "pmkel...@frontier.com" wrote: > BTW does doing network install mean I have to have a server setup to > serve the installs? I think you are mixing two different install methods. There is a netinstall image, that has a barebones Fedora that gets installed,

Re: proposal: drop optical media from release criteria

2018-09-21 Thread Robert Moskowitz
On 9/21/18 3:40 PM, Samuel Sieb wrote: On 9/21/18 12:35 PM, Samuel Sieb wrote: On 9/21/18 11:56 AM, pmkel...@frontier.com wrote: BTW does doing network install mean I have to have a server setup to serve the installs? I only ask because right now my knowledge of servers (now to set them up

Re: proposal: drop optical media from release criteria

2018-09-21 Thread Matthew Miller
On Fri, Sep 21, 2018 at 12:35:17PM -0700, Samuel Sieb wrote: > >BTW does doing network install mean I have to have a server setup > >to serve the installs? I only ask because right now my knowledge > >of servers (now to set them up and maintain them) is zero and > >there doesn't seem to be any

Re: proposal: drop optical media from release criteria

2018-09-21 Thread Samuel Sieb
On 9/21/18 12:39 PM, Robert Moskowitz wrote: On 9/21/18 3:35 PM, Samuel Sieb wrote: On 9/21/18 11:56 AM, pmkel...@frontier.com wrote: BTW does doing network install mean I have to have a server setup to serve the installs? I only ask because right now my knowledge of servers (now to set them

Re: proposal: drop optical media from release criteria

2018-09-21 Thread Samuel Sieb
On 9/21/18 12:35 PM, Samuel Sieb wrote: On 9/21/18 11:56 AM, pmkel...@frontier.com wrote: BTW does doing network install mean I have to have a server setup to serve the installs? I only ask because right now my knowledge of servers (now to set them up and maintain them) is zero and there

Re: proposal: drop optical media from release criteria

2018-09-21 Thread Robert Moskowitz
On 9/21/18 3:35 PM, Samuel Sieb wrote: On 9/21/18 11:56 AM, pmkel...@frontier.com wrote: BTW does doing network install mean I have to have a server setup to serve the installs? I only ask because right now my knowledge of servers (now to set them up and maintain them) is zero and there

Re: proposal: drop optical media from release criteria

2018-09-21 Thread Samuel Sieb
On 9/21/18 11:56 AM, pmkel...@frontier.com wrote: BTW does doing network install mean I have to have a server setup to serve the installs? I only ask because right now my knowledge of servers (now to set them up and maintain them) is zero and there doesn't seem to be any automatic tools to

Re: proposal: drop optical media from release criteria

2018-09-21 Thread Adam Williamson
On Fri, 2018-09-21 at 14:56 -0400, pmkel...@frontier.com wrote: > > On 9/21/18 1:30 PM, Adam Williamson wrote: > > On Thu, 2018-09-20 at 22:35 -0400, Harold Dost wrote: > > > Is having this as a test criteria *that* burdensome? > > > > Yes, frankly. Not a lot of testers even keep a DVD-RW drive

Re: proposal: drop optical media from release criteria

2018-09-21 Thread Matthew Miller
On Thu, Sep 20, 2018 at 09:24:56PM +, Rick Stevens wrote: > Ok, so ISO images would still be produced and could be burned to OM > for installation. There just isn't any guarantee (at release) that the > OM would actually boot and one could squawk it if it didn't and not be > poo-poo'd about

Re: proposal: drop optical media from release criteria

2018-09-21 Thread Matthew Miller
On Fri, Sep 21, 2018 at 02:23:24PM +0200, Kamil Paral wrote: > Speaking for I believe most of the QA team: "We'd be happy to". Testing > optical boot is a major PITA. The decision is not ours, though, but I > assume it belongs to the groups owning the media currently blocking optical > boot. Which

Re: proposal: drop optical media from release criteria

2018-09-21 Thread pmkel...@frontier.com
On 9/21/18 1:30 PM, Adam Williamson wrote: On Thu, 2018-09-20 at 22:35 -0400, Harold Dost wrote: Is having this as a test criteria *that* burdensome? Yes, frankly. Not a lot of testers even keep a DVD-RW drive and media around any more. It takes like a half hour just to write all the media

Re: proposal: drop optical media from release criteria

2018-09-21 Thread Adam Williamson
On Fri, 2018-09-21 at 13:52 -0400, Harold Dost wrote: > On Fri, Sep 21, 2018 at 1:30 PM Adam Williamson > wrote: > > On Thu, 2018-09-20 at 22:35 -0400, Harold Dost wrote: > > > Is having this as a test criteria *that* burdensome? > > > > Yes, frankly. Not a lot of testers even keep a DVD-RW

Re: proposal: drop optical media from release criteria

2018-09-21 Thread Harold Dost
On Fri, Sep 21, 2018 at 1:30 PM Adam Williamson wrote: > > On Thu, 2018-09-20 at 22:35 -0400, Harold Dost wrote: > > Is having this as a test criteria *that* burdensome? > > Yes, frankly. Not a lot of testers even keep a DVD-RW drive and media > around any more. It takes like a half hour just to

Re: proposal: drop optical media from release criteria

2018-09-21 Thread Robert Moskowitz
On 9/21/18 1:30 PM, Adam Williamson wrote: On Thu, 2018-09-20 at 22:35 -0400, Harold Dost wrote: Is having this as a test criteria *that* burdensome? Yes, frankly. Not a lot of testers even keep a DVD-RW drive and media around any more. It takes like a half hour just to write all the media

Re: proposal: drop optical media from release criteria

2018-09-21 Thread Adam Williamson
On Thu, 2018-09-20 at 22:35 -0400, Harold Dost wrote: > Is having this as a test criteria *that* burdensome? Yes, frankly. Not a lot of testers even keep a DVD-RW drive and media around any more. It takes like a half hour just to write all the media for testing, then another few hours to run

Re: proposal: drop optical media from release criteria

2018-09-21 Thread Harold Dost
On Fri, Sep 21, 2018 at 8:33 AM Kamil Paral wrote: > > On Fri, Sep 21, 2018 at 6:17 AM Chris Murphy wrote: >> >> On Thu, Sep 20, 2018 at 8:36 PM Harold Dost wrote: >> > >> > Is having this as a test criteria *that* burdensome? Similar to another >> > blocker that was being proposed, maybe it's

Re: proposal: drop optical media from release criteria

2018-09-21 Thread Kamil Paral
On Fri, Sep 21, 2018 at 6:17 AM Chris Murphy wrote: > On Thu, Sep 20, 2018 at 8:36 PM Harold Dost wrote: > > > > Is having this as a test criteria *that* burdensome? Similar to another > blocker that was being proposed, maybe it's not something that _must_ be > tested, but if it's known to be

Re: proposal: drop optical media from release criteria

2018-09-21 Thread Kamil Paral
On Thu, Sep 20, 2018 at 8:17 PM Matthew Miller wrote: > On Thu, Sep 20, 2018 at 01:49:20PM -0400, Matthew Miller wrote: > > Justification: > http://newsthump.com/2018/05/21/man-decides-to-keep-box-of-cables-hes-has-since-2002-for-another-year/ > > More seriously: I don't think there are any

Re: proposal: drop optical media from release criteria

2018-09-20 Thread Chris Murphy
On Thu, Sep 20, 2018 at 8:36 PM Harold Dost wrote: > > Is having this as a test criteria *that* burdensome? Similar to another > blocker that was being proposed, maybe it's not something that _must_ be > tested, but if it's known to be broken that it should block a final. Maybe > I'm missing

Re: proposal: drop optical media from release criteria

2018-09-20 Thread Felix Miata
Harold Dost composed on 2018-09-20 22:35 (UTC-0400): > Is having this as a test criteria *that* burdensome? Similar to another > blocker that was being proposed, maybe it's not something that _must_ be > tested, but if it's known to be broken that it should block a final. +1 -- "Wisdom is

Re: proposal: drop optical media from release criteria

2018-09-20 Thread Harold Dost
Is having this as a test criteria *that* burdensome? Similar to another blocker that was being proposed, maybe it's not something that _must_ be tested, but if it's known to be broken that it should block a final. Maybe I'm missing something, but unless the image is over the capacity of a DVD,

Re: proposal: drop optical media from release criteria

2018-09-20 Thread Ed Greshko
On 9/21/18 9:47 AM, Chris Murphy wrote: > On Thu, Sep 20, 2018 at 6:08 PM Ed Greshko wrote: >> On 9/21/18 7:42 AM, Chris Murphy wrote: >>> On Thu, Sep 20, 2018 at 2:47 PM Samuel Sieb wrote: >>> That is true, but there is also a reasonable chance or losing them, breaking them, or other

Re: proposal: drop optical media from release criteria

2018-09-20 Thread Chris Murphy
On Thu, Sep 20, 2018 at 6:08 PM Ed Greshko wrote: > > On 9/21/18 7:42 AM, Chris Murphy wrote: > > On Thu, Sep 20, 2018 at 2:47 PM Samuel Sieb wrote: > > > >> That is true, but there is also a reasonable chance or losing them, > >> breaking them, or other random failures. When a flash drive

Re: proposal: drop optical media from release criteria

2018-09-20 Thread Robert Moskowitz
On 9/20/18 7:45 PM, Chris Murphy wrote: On Thu, Sep 20, 2018 at 2:51 PM Robert Moskowitz wrote: That is what I meant about installing from CD. I take the ISO image and burn it to CD. If that is what is proposed to still be included, then I can work with it. The size of the Workstation

Re: proposal: drop optical media from release criteria

2018-09-20 Thread Ed Greshko
On 9/21/18 7:42 AM, Chris Murphy wrote: > On Thu, Sep 20, 2018 at 2:47 PM Samuel Sieb wrote: > >> That is true, but there is also a reasonable chance or losing them, >> breaking them, or other random failures. When a flash drive dies, it's >> gone, very difficult to recover if even possible. I

Re: proposal: drop optical media from release criteria

2018-09-20 Thread Chris Murphy
On Thu, Sep 20, 2018 at 2:34 PM Anderson, Charles R wrote: > > On Thu, Sep 20, 2018 at 08:29:24PM +, Rick Stevens wrote: > > Some of these beasties are of, well, "older" vintage and are unable to > > boot USB media natively. They can boot some USB-based and most IDE-based > > CD/DVD drives.

Re: proposal: drop optical media from release criteria

2018-09-20 Thread Chris Murphy
On Thu, Sep 20, 2018 at 2:51 PM Robert Moskowitz wrote: > > That is what I meant about installing from CD. I take the ISO image and > burn it to CD. If that is what is proposed to still be included, then I > can work with it. The size of the Workstation live ISO exceeds what will fit on a CD.

Re: proposal: drop optical media from release criteria

2018-09-20 Thread Chris Murphy
On Thu, Sep 20, 2018 at 2:47 PM Samuel Sieb wrote: > That is true, but there is also a reasonable chance or losing them, > breaking them, or other random failures. When a flash drive dies, it's > gone, very difficult to recover if even possible. I would not recommend > a flash drive (or DVD)

Re: proposal: drop optical media from release criteria

2018-09-20 Thread pmkel...@frontier.com
Okay, I see. I always burn the ISOs to DVD and do bare metal installs from DVD; so I am testing this criteria every time I install a new drop for testing. Well, I have no plans to change my install procedure. I don't test every drop, and so far I wait to start testing until the new version

Re: proposal: drop optical media from release criteria

2018-09-20 Thread Robert Moskowitz
On 9/20/18 5:45 PM, Adam Williamson wrote: On Thu, 2018-09-20 at 16:10 -0400, pmkel...@frontier.com wrote: Consider cost please. DVDs are a few cents each. From what I've seen 16 Gb is the smallest thumb drive available now and they are fading fast. Even in lot quantity they are between $6 an

Re: proposal: drop optical media from release criteria

2018-09-20 Thread Adam Williamson
On Thu, 2018-09-20 at 16:42 -0400, Robert Moskowitz wrote: > > On 9/20/18 4:25 PM, Matthew Miller wrote: > > On Thu, Sep 20, 2018 at 04:17:52PM -0400, Robert Moskowitz wrote: > > > I burn CDs regularly for my wife. I cannot do this on my F28 Xfce > > > system with k3b. See bug 1583845. I have

Re: proposal: drop optical media from release criteria

2018-09-20 Thread Adam Williamson
On Thu, 2018-09-20 at 16:10 -0400, pmkel...@frontier.com wrote: > Consider cost please. DVDs are a few cents each. From what I've seen 16 > Gb is the smallest thumb drive available now and they are fading fast. > Even in lot quantity they are between $6 an d $10 each. > > I know they can be

Re: proposal: drop optical media from release criteria

2018-09-20 Thread Anderson, Charles R
On Thu, Sep 20, 2018 at 05:13:42PM -0400, Robert Moskowitz wrote: > > > On 9/20/18 5:05 PM, Anderson, Charles R wrote: > > On Thu, Sep 20, 2018 at 04:48:25PM -0400, Robert Moskowitz wrote: > > > > > > On 9/20/18 4:34 PM, Anderson, Charles R wrote: > > > > On Thu, Sep 20, 2018 at 08:29:24PM

Re: proposal: drop optical media from release criteria

2018-09-20 Thread Robert Moskowitz
On 9/20/18 5:16 PM, Matthew Miller wrote: On Thu, Sep 20, 2018 at 04:46:52PM -0400, Robert Moskowitz wrote: I suppose I can read up how to make a 'LiveCD' on usb, and see if it boots! Please try the Fedora Media Writer tool. Will. That is something else you would have to change to

Re: proposal: drop optical media from release criteria

2018-09-20 Thread Rick Stevens
On 9/20/18 1:35 PM, Matthew Miller wrote: > On Thu, Sep 20, 2018 at 04:23:03PM -0400, pmkel...@frontier.com wrote: There are still some systems out there that won't boot off native USB media and need CD/DVD emulation over USB to work. I don't think the time is yet ripe to jettison

Re: proposal: drop optical media from release criteria

2018-09-20 Thread Richard Shaw
On Thu, Sep 20, 2018 at 4:06 PM Fred Smith wrote: > On Thu, Sep 20, 2018 at 08:42:13PM +0200, Julen Landa Alustiza wrote: > >I keep an optical driver in a box under the desk, it might be useful > >someday. > >I haven't used it for years. So yeah, it's time to clean the box > > So,

Re: proposal: drop optical media from release criteria

2018-09-20 Thread Matthew Miller
On Thu, Sep 20, 2018 at 04:46:52PM -0400, Robert Moskowitz wrote: > I suppose I can read up how to make a 'LiveCD' on usb, and see if it boots! Please try the Fedora Media Writer tool. > That is something else you would have to change to 'LiveUSB'. We've called our images just "Live" since...

Re: proposal: drop optical media from release criteria

2018-09-20 Thread Robert Moskowitz
On 9/20/18 5:05 PM, Anderson, Charles R wrote: On Thu, Sep 20, 2018 at 04:48:25PM -0400, Robert Moskowitz wrote: On 9/20/18 4:34 PM, Anderson, Charles R wrote: On Thu, Sep 20, 2018 at 08:29:24PM +, Rick Stevens wrote: Some of these beasties are of, well, "older" vintage and are unable

Re: proposal: drop optical media from release criteria

2018-09-20 Thread Fred Smith
On Thu, Sep 20, 2018 at 08:42:13PM +0200, Julen Landa Alustiza wrote: >I keep an optical driver in a box under the desk, it might be useful >someday. >I haven't used it for years. So yeah, it's time to clean the box So, does this mean the images can can no longer be made to boot from

Re: proposal: drop optical media from release criteria

2018-09-20 Thread Anderson, Charles R
On Thu, Sep 20, 2018 at 04:48:25PM -0400, Robert Moskowitz wrote: > > > On 9/20/18 4:34 PM, Anderson, Charles R wrote: > > On Thu, Sep 20, 2018 at 08:29:24PM +, Rick Stevens wrote: > > > Some of these beasties are of, well, "older" vintage and are unable to > > > boot USB media natively.

Re: proposal: drop optical media from release criteria

2018-09-20 Thread Robert Moskowitz
On 9/20/18 4:53 PM, Samuel Sieb wrote: On 9/20/18 1:48 PM, Robert Moskowitz wrote: On 9/20/18 4:34 PM, Anderson, Charles R wrote: On Thu, Sep 20, 2018 at 08:29:24PM +, Rick Stevens wrote: Some of these beasties are of, well, "older" vintage and are unable to boot USB media natively.

Re: proposal: drop optical media from release criteria

2018-09-20 Thread Samuel Sieb
On 9/20/18 1:50 PM, Robert Moskowitz wrote: That is what I meant about installing from CD.  I take the ISO image and burn it to CD.  If that is what is proposed to still be included, then I can work with it. This is only about testing, no changes to the release artifacts in any way. You

Re: proposal: drop optical media from release criteria

2018-09-20 Thread Matthew Miller
On Thu, Sep 20, 2018 at 04:42:50PM -0400, Robert Moskowitz wrote: > >On Thu, Sep 20, 2018 at 04:17:52PM -0400, Robert Moskowitz wrote: > >>I burn CDs regularly for my wife.  I cannot do this on my F28 Xfce > >>system with k3b. See bug 1583845.  I have to use my F24 old system. > >>Can't burn DVDs

Re: proposal: drop optical media from release criteria

2018-09-20 Thread Robert Moskowitz
On 9/20/18 4:45 PM, Samuel Sieb wrote: On 9/20/18 1:40 PM, Michael Cronenworth wrote: I'm not sure what FUD you've read to believe that, but flash drives from reputable brands are very hard and last more than a few times writing to them. That is true, but there is also a reasonable chance

Re: proposal: drop optical media from release criteria

2018-09-20 Thread Samuel Sieb
On 9/20/18 1:48 PM, Robert Moskowitz wrote: On 9/20/18 4:34 PM, Anderson, Charles R wrote: On Thu, Sep 20, 2018 at 08:29:24PM +, Rick Stevens wrote: Some of these beasties are of, well, "older" vintage and are unable to boot USB media natively. They can boot some USB-based and most

Re: proposal: drop optical media from release criteria

2018-09-20 Thread Felix Miata
Matthew Miller composed on 2018-09-20 14:16 (UTC-0400): > On Thu, Sep 20, 2018 at 01:49:20PM -0400, Matthew Miller wrote: >> Justification: >> http://newsthump.com/2018/05/21/man-decides-to-keep-box-of-cables-hes-has-since-2002-for-another-year/ > More seriously: I don't think there are any

Re: proposal: drop optical media from release criteria

2018-09-20 Thread Robert Moskowitz
On 9/20/18 4:41 PM, Samuel Sieb wrote: On 9/20/18 1:29 PM, Rick Stevens wrote: On 9/20/18 12:59 PM, Samuel Sieb wrote: On 9/20/18 12:30 PM, Rick Stevens wrote: On 9/20/18 12:26 PM, M. Edward (Ed) Borasky wrote: +1 to dropping the optical media criterion for Fedora, but I still rip CDs and

Re: proposal: drop optical media from release criteria

2018-09-20 Thread Chris Murphy
On Thu, Sep 20, 2018 at 1:30 PM, Rick Stevens wrote: > On 9/20/18 12:26 PM, M. Edward (Ed) Borasky wrote: >> +1 to dropping the optical media criterion for Fedora, but I still rip >> CDs and DVDs ;-) > > There are still some systems out there that won't boot off native > USB media and need CD/DVD

Re: proposal: drop optical media from release criteria

2018-09-20 Thread Robert Moskowitz
On 9/20/18 4:34 PM, Anderson, Charles R wrote: On Thu, Sep 20, 2018 at 08:29:24PM +, Rick Stevens wrote: Some of these beasties are of, well, "older" vintage and are unable to boot USB media natively. They can boot some USB-based and most IDE-based CD/DVD drives. I'd love to replace them

Re: proposal: drop optical media from release criteria

2018-09-20 Thread Robert Moskowitz
On 9/20/18 4:30 PM, Alessio Ciregia wrote: On Thu, Sep 20, 2018, 10:26 PM Matthew Miller mailto:mat...@fedoraproject.org>> wrote: On Thu, Sep 20, 2018 at 04:17:52PM -0400, Robert Moskowitz wrote: > I burn CDs regularly for my wife.  I cannot do this on my F28 Xfce > system with

Re: proposal: drop optical media from release criteria

2018-09-20 Thread Samuel Sieb
On 9/20/18 1:40 PM, Michael Cronenworth wrote: I'm not sure what FUD you've read to believe that, but flash drives from reputable brands are very hard and last more than a few times writing to them. That is true, but there is also a reasonable chance or losing them, breaking them, or other

Re: proposal: drop optical media from release criteria

2018-09-20 Thread Robert Moskowitz
On 9/20/18 4:25 PM, Matthew Miller wrote: On Thu, Sep 20, 2018 at 04:17:52PM -0400, Robert Moskowitz wrote: I burn CDs regularly for my wife.  I cannot do this on my F28 Xfce system with k3b. See bug 1583845.  I have to use my F24 old system. Can't burn DVDs (for backups of video lectures)

Re: proposal: drop optical media from release criteria

2018-09-20 Thread Samuel Sieb
On 9/20/18 1:29 PM, Rick Stevens wrote: On 9/20/18 12:59 PM, Samuel Sieb wrote: On 9/20/18 12:30 PM, Rick Stevens wrote: On 9/20/18 12:26 PM, M. Edward (Ed) Borasky wrote: +1 to dropping the optical media criterion for Fedora, but I still rip CDs and DVDs ;-) There are still some systems

Re: proposal: drop optical media from release criteria

2018-09-20 Thread Robert Moskowitz
On 9/20/18 4:23 PM, pmkel...@frontier.com wrote: On 9/20/18 4:03 PM, Matthew Miller wrote: On Thu, Sep 20, 2018 at 07:30:19PM +, Rick Stevens wrote: +1 to dropping the optical media criterion for Fedora, but I still rip CDs and DVDs ;-) There are still some systems out there that won't

Re: proposal: drop optical media from release criteria

2018-09-20 Thread Michael Cronenworth
On 9/20/18 3:23 PM, pmkel...@frontier.com wrote: We buy used, manufacturer refurbished PCs for the most part to keep costs down. They are generally 5 years old when purchased and they get used for another 5 or more years. They run Fedora and the applications we use just fine. So now it sounds

Re: proposal: drop optical media from release criteria

2018-09-20 Thread Matthew Miller
On Thu, Sep 20, 2018 at 04:23:03PM -0400, pmkel...@frontier.com wrote: > >>There are still some systems out there that won't boot off native > >>USB media and need CD/DVD emulation over USB to work. I don't think > >>the time is yet ripe to jettison optical media. Soon, but not just yet. > >How

Re: proposal: drop optical media from release criteria

2018-09-20 Thread Anderson, Charles R
On Thu, Sep 20, 2018 at 08:29:24PM +, Rick Stevens wrote: > Some of these beasties are of, well, "older" vintage and are unable to > boot USB media natively. They can boot some USB-based and most IDE-based > CD/DVD drives. I'd love to replace them with newer systems but am unable > to unless

Re: proposal: drop optical media from release criteria

2018-09-20 Thread Alessio Ciregia
On Thu, Sep 20, 2018, 10:26 PM Matthew Miller wrote: > On Thu, Sep 20, 2018 at 04:17:52PM -0400, Robert Moskowitz wrote: > > I burn CDs regularly for my wife. I cannot do this on my F28 Xfce > > system with k3b. See bug 1583845. I have to use my F24 old system. > > Can't burn DVDs (for backups

Re: proposal: drop optical media from release criteria

2018-09-20 Thread Rick Stevens
On 9/20/18 12:59 PM, Samuel Sieb wrote: > On 9/20/18 12:30 PM, Rick Stevens wrote: >> On 9/20/18 12:26 PM, M. Edward (Ed) Borasky wrote: >>> +1 to dropping the optical media criterion for Fedora, but I still rip >>> CDs and DVDs ;-) >> >> There are still some systems out there that won't boot off

Re: proposal: drop optical media from release criteria

2018-09-20 Thread Matthew Miller
On Thu, Sep 20, 2018 at 04:17:52PM -0400, Robert Moskowitz wrote: > I burn CDs regularly for my wife.  I cannot do this on my F28 Xfce > system with k3b. See bug 1583845.  I have to use my F24 old system. > Can't burn DVDs (for backups of video lectures) either. Burning DVDs is a completely

Re: proposal: drop optical media from release criteria

2018-09-20 Thread pmkel...@frontier.com
On 9/20/18 4:03 PM, Matthew Miller wrote: On Thu, Sep 20, 2018 at 07:30:19PM +, Rick Stevens wrote: +1 to dropping the optical media criterion for Fedora, but I still rip CDs and DVDs ;-) There are still some systems out there that won't boot off native USB media and need CD/DVD emulation

Re: proposal: drop optical media from release criteria

2018-09-20 Thread Robert Moskowitz
On 9/20/18 1:49 PM, Matthew Miller wrote: Justification: http://newsthump.com/2018/05/21/man-decides-to-keep-box-of-cables-hes-has-since-2002-for-another-year/ I installed F28 with a netinstall CD. I burn CDs regularly for my wife.  I cannot do this on my F28 Xfce system with k3b. See

Re: proposal: drop optical media from release criteria

2018-09-20 Thread Matthew Miller
On Thu, Sep 20, 2018 at 04:01:40PM -0400, pmkel...@frontier.com wrote: > >More seriously: I don't think there are any systems in the audiences > >targeted by our release-blocking deliverables which are not better served > >by booting from USB media. > I maintain a group of PCs. I like to always

Re: proposal: drop optical media from release criteria

2018-09-20 Thread Samuel Sieb
On 9/20/18 1:01 PM, pmkel...@frontier.com wrote: I maintain a group of PCs. I like to always leave a copy of the install media with each PC in case it's needed. DVDs are very much cheaper than thumb drives. Please don't make me spend my budget when there is no need to. There is nothing

Re: proposal: drop optical media from release criteria

2018-09-20 Thread pmkel...@frontier.com
Consider cost please. DVDs are a few cents each. From what I've seen 16 Gb is the smallest thumb drive available now and they are fading fast. Even in lot quantity they are between $6 an d $10 each. I know they can be reused a few times before they start having retention problems, but there

Re: proposal: drop optical media from release criteria

2018-09-20 Thread Matthew Miller
On Thu, Sep 20, 2018 at 07:30:19PM +, Rick Stevens wrote: > > +1 to dropping the optical media criterion for Fedora, but I still rip > > CDs and DVDs ;-) > There are still some systems out there that won't boot off native > USB media and need CD/DVD emulation over USB to work. I don't think >

Re: proposal: drop optical media from release criteria

2018-09-20 Thread pmkel...@frontier.com
On 9/20/18 2:16 PM, Matthew Miller wrote: On Thu, Sep 20, 2018 at 01:49:20PM -0400, Matthew Miller wrote: Justification: http://newsthump.com/2018/05/21/man-decides-to-keep-box-of-cables-hes-has-since-2002-for-another-year/ More seriously: I don't think there are any systems in the

Re: proposal: drop optical media from release criteria

2018-09-20 Thread Samuel Sieb
On 9/20/18 12:30 PM, Rick Stevens wrote: On 9/20/18 12:26 PM, M. Edward (Ed) Borasky wrote: +1 to dropping the optical media criterion for Fedora, but I still rip CDs and DVDs ;-) There are still some systems out there that won't boot off native USB media and need CD/DVD emulation over USB to

Re: proposal: drop optical media from release criteria

2018-09-20 Thread Rick Stevens
On 9/20/18 12:26 PM, M. Edward (Ed) Borasky wrote: > +1 to dropping the optical media criterion for Fedora, but I still rip > CDs and DVDs ;-) There are still some systems out there that won't boot off native USB media and need CD/DVD emulation over USB to work. I don't think the time is yet ripe

Re: proposal: drop optical media from release criteria

2018-09-20 Thread M. Edward (Ed) Borasky
+1 to dropping the optical media criterion for Fedora, but I still rip CDs and DVDs ;-) On Thu, Sep 20, 2018 at 11:54 AM, Chris Murphy wrote: > On Thu, Sep 20, 2018 at 11:49 AM, Matthew Miller > wrote: >> Justification: >>

Re: proposal: drop optical media from release criteria

2018-09-20 Thread Chris Murphy
On Thu, Sep 20, 2018 at 11:49 AM, Matthew Miller wrote: > Justification: > http://newsthump.com/2018/05/21/man-decides-to-keep-box-of-cables-hes-has-since-2002-for-another-year/ +1 to dropping the optical media criterion -- Chris Murphy ___ test

Re: proposal: drop optical media from release criteria

2018-09-20 Thread Julen Landa Alustiza
I keep an optical driver in a box under the desk, it might be useful someday. I haven't used it for years. So yeah, it's time to clean the box El jue., 20 sept. 2018 20:26, Richard Shaw escribió: > On Thu, Sep 20, 2018 at 12:49 PM Matthew Miller > wrote: > >> Justification: >>

Re: proposal: drop optical media from release criteria

2018-09-20 Thread Richard Shaw
On Thu, Sep 20, 2018 at 12:49 PM Matthew Miller wrote: > Justification: > http://newsthump.com/2018/05/21/man-decides-to-keep-box-of-cables-hes-has-since-2002-for-another-year/ Ouch, that stings just a little :) But yeah, I have burned an install disk in years. Thanks, Richard

Re: proposal: drop optical media from release criteria

2018-09-20 Thread Matthew Miller
On Thu, Sep 20, 2018 at 01:49:20PM -0400, Matthew Miller wrote: > Justification: > http://newsthump.com/2018/05/21/man-decides-to-keep-box-of-cables-hes-has-since-2002-for-another-year/ More seriously: I don't think there are any systems in the audiences targeted by our release-blocking