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Austin wrote: | | On 09/15/2003 05:52:36 AM, Austin wrote: | |> You will make some enemies by giving 650 MB CD's to a use with an old |> machine, | | | Of course I meant 700 MB here. | Austin
Agreed, but the tradeoff is, how many of such enemies are you going to make, compared to benefit of having some more packages on the CDs ? You will never manage to make everybody happy.
Mandrake was never targeting old machines or servers, it was/is percieved as "desktop" distro optimized for current machines (though you can still make a very good servers with it - I am running three myself). You are probably not going to run KDE (the default desktop) or new Gnome on the old machines anyway unless you are a masochist.
More valid argument is the problem with people burning 700MB ISOs on 650MB media (I did this mistake myself) or the problems to get 700MB CD-RW media, but it seems to be a less pressing problem today than one year ago (when 9.0 was released on 700MB ISOs).
Jan
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