From: Andrew Kane <ak...@freegeekseattle.org> Date: Fri, Oct 25, 2013 at 6:55 AM Subject: Re: Proposal: switch default desktop to xfce
On Fri, Oct 25, 2013 at 6:09 AM, Ian Campbell <i...@hellion.org.uk> wrote: > > On Fri, 2013-10-25 at 13:31 +0100, Steve McIntyre wrote: > > ...I've been > > told multiple times that we still have a non-negligible set of users > > owning/running hardware that can't do DVDs. > > The set of hardware which can't boot from DVDs *or* boot from a USB > stick must surely be pretty tiny. (AIUI it is the DVD ISOs which can be > thrown onto a stick, so throwing away CDs wont hurt that) > > Add in "or boot from network" and it must be a minuscule set. > > Ian. > As someone who deals with a lot of random donated hardware, I can attest that we run into these cases frequently. It may be rare that new systems lack these capabilities, but then installing Debian on non-server (or even non-virtual) hardware is rare also. TBH my organization installs Xubuntu by default due to policy inherited from the parent org. -- Helping Seattle's Needy Get Nerdy http://freegeekseattle.org/wiki/index.php/Free_Geek_Seattle:About http://freegeekseattle.org/wiki/index.php/Projects Maillist: https://groups.google.com/forum/?fromgroups#!forum/freegeek-seattle IRC: #freegeek-sea on freenode freegeekseattle.org -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/CAKErO6239vxuYEncnQtW1=wph8jvvjbbxo1cbd+7pmm3hf8...@mail.gmail.com
