On Sun, Mar 12, 2017 at 09:17:49AM +0530, Lone Learner wrote: >On 9 March 2017 at 14:51, Steve McIntyre <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> We've stopped building CDs for most purposes - they're just too small >> to be useful in a lot of cases, and have been causing issues for >> users. We also switched to offering the choice of desktop at tasksel >> time, which makes it less important to offer multiple different CDs >> tuned to install each desktop. >> >> For some time now we've only been building two CDs per architecture: >> the netinst and *1* single-desktop installer CD for xfce. If you want >> to install other desktops, grab the netinst and select during >> installation or use DVD#1. > >Can someone please share why the single-desktop installer CD was made >in favour of Xfce? Why was not some other desktop like GNOM3, KDE or >LXDE selected for the single-desktop installer CD?
Gnome and KDE don't fit on a single CD - we've been struggling for a couple of releases to get a reasonable subset of each to fit, and it's just not working any more. We actually dropped the CDs altogether for a while, then on request brought back XFCE as a lone option for a single-CD desktop. XFCE is reasonably small. and popular enough. CDs are basically dead - the world moved on to DVDs several years ago, and now USB flash is probably most common for most users. -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK. [email protected] Is there anybody out there?
