On Mon, Feb 12, 2018 at 08:25:54AM +0530, shirish शिरीष wrote: >On 12/02/2018, Steve McIntyre <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> We've had a few "virus" reports about our images over the years, but >> every one I've investigated has clearly been a false positive in the >> virus checker involved. Many of them are proprietary, which of course >> makes it difficult to debug the problem. :-/ > >aha, ok didn't know that.
... >Actually what I had wanted to ask/post the query is that we somehow >miss the bus of getting the releases to meta-search engines such as >torrentz.eu > >See for e.g. https://torrentz2.eu/search?f=%27debian-9.3.0-amd64%27 > >and see the results that have cropped up. I was hoping that it would >show the CD releases as well as the DVD releases and net install. As >can be seen while it shows the DVD image and the netinstall images, >but for unknown reasons officially CD images seems to have gone the >way of dodo > >https://cdimage.debian.org/debian-cd/current/amd64/bt-cd/ > >Maybe because CD-1 has become too big that it can't anymore fit lxde >or something for base-install + desktop environment. I did scour the >archives for last 2-3 months but wasn't able to get anything about why >they were dropped although it probably is due to the space issue I >have mentioned above. > >Are there any hopes of the CD images being revived in the future or >that's sort of gone forever ? We dropped the CD sets a while back, for the reason you've guessed. See the announcement in https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2015/09/msg00004.html I've since re-added a single-CD option for Xfce, for thoe people who really do want a single CD that will give them a basic desktop, -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK. [email protected] Who needs computer imagery when you've got Brian Blessed?
