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.