On 31 May 2011 18:33, Joe Zeff <joe(a)zeff.us> wrote:
On 05/31/2011 02:58 AM, Timothy Murphy wrote:
> Incidentally, isn't it time the Fedora developers
> gave up this passion for DVDs?
> Does anyone burn DVDs to install Fedora today?
> Half the new machines I see don't have DVD drives anyway.
> Surely everyone has a big enough USB stick?
> Why not be honest, and take that as the default?
>
Not everybody has a brand-new machine. Not everybody even has one that
can boot off of USB. I can remember when Fedora stopped providing a CD
version and I didn't have a DVD drive. (Nor, I might add, the money to
buy one because they were still quite expensive.) I had to find a
third-party website that had broken the DVD up into CDs. Just because
you don't like DVDs doesn't mean that they (and CDs) aren't still
important to a large fraction of Fedora users.
I think you'll find Timothy said "take that as the default", not "stop
releasing the DVD version". I for one would like more prominence to
the USB image and methods of creating it on the Fedora install pages,
just because a tleast two of the machines I generally install it on
don't have a CD/DVD drive (all of our Office machines lack them).
--
Sam