If you watch, you can get DVD burners for about $15 USD.
eg:
http://slickdeals.net/permadeal/62972/newegg-liteon-external-cddvd-burner...
Or used for about $5-$10 at any flea market.
On 05/09/2012 04:33 PM, drago01 wrote:
On Wed, May 9, 2012 at 10:07 PM, Jaroslav Reznik
<jreznik(a)redhat.com> wrote:
>> I know I've said this before, but: we should break the CD size
>> barrier
>> precisely so people can't burn things to CDs. If you must burn to
>> optical media, do yourself a favor and burn a DVD, the reduced seek
>> time
>> is entirely worth it.
> I'd like to break CD limit too but we should not forgot there are users
> for which CD is top technology from dreams and we have a lot of these
> users among some countries...
Where are the numbers to back this nonsense up?
A DVD burner costs ~12 € ... and any computer that old isn't really
that capable of running fedora reasonably anyway.
> For me personally CD is history, even
> DVD, same 1 GB flash drive. We can afford it. But some people can't
> and are our users thanks to the ability to get a cheap OS, that can
> run on cheap HW and is still modern.
See above.
> The question is - how many people will be affected? Or should we
> provide some fallback option - stripped down CD media size image? And
> make the bigger one primary one?
Well anyone can create a specialized spin for ancient hardware, but we
should not restrict ourselves because of ancient hardware.