I think CDs are obsolete technology. Even here in India, CDs are slowly being phased out as the price of USB drives drops daily. USB drives are reusable, install and run OSes faster and, as Chris Triantafillis points out, are less harmful to the environment.
If elementary is trying to be disciplined about the image size (as Ubuntu is), then I respect that. But there's no need to adhere to such an ancient and restrictive limit. On 24 September 2012 19:35, Chris Triantafillis <[email protected]>wrote: > My opinion is that we should increase the size limit and encourage people > use USB rather than CD... > CD is harmfull for the enviroment too... > > > 2012/9/24 Daniel Foré <[email protected]> > >> Alrighty, well if we think it'll fit, I'm down with adding more >> languages. >> >> Best Regards, >> Daniel Foré >> >> El sep 23, 2012, a las 10:50 p.m., Eduard Gotwig <[email protected]> >> escribió: >> >> Daniel Fore: >> >> The stuff gets compressed with squashfs to like 1/3 of the original >> size.That means around 46/47 MB. >> >> 2012/9/23 Daniel Foré <[email protected]> >> >>> Currently we want to fit on a CD, so 700MB >>> >>> Best Regards, >>> Daniel Foré >>> >>> El sep 23, 2012, a las 12:32 p.m., Chris Triantafillis < >>> [email protected]> escribió: >>> >>> What is the size limit? >>> >>> 2012/9/23 Daniel Foré <[email protected]> >>> >>>> Sounds like we really don't have room for that. We have room for 50 >>>> more MB. So maybe we can choose like 3? >>>> >>>> Best Regards, >>>> Daniel Foré >>>> >>>> El sep 23, 2012, a las 12:25 p.m., Eduard Gotwig < >>>> [email protected]> escribió: >>>> >>>> I included here Russian as well, couse its used quite often: >>>>> >>>>> 140 MB are going to be used after this operation by apt-get : sudo >>>>> apt-get --no-install-recommends --download-only install >>>>> language-pack-gnome-pl language-pack-gnome-es language-pack-gnome-it >>>>> language-pack-gnome-ru language-pack-gnome-nl language-pack-gnome-fr >>>>> language-pack-gnome-pt language-pack-gnome-de language-pack-gnome-en >>>>> >>>>> When someone wants to test that, go for it and include it in your >>>>> custom build with congrego ;) >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> 2012/9/23 Craig <[email protected]> >>>>> >>>>>> I think American English is pretty standard in computing, even >>>>>> internationally. Not that it will be a serious impediment d either way. >>>>>> On Sep 23, 2012 1:28 PM, "David Gomes" <[email protected]> >>>>>> wrote: >>>>>> >>>>>>> First of all, English and Portuguese will be a problem. How can we >>>>>>> decide which "version" of English and Portuguese to include? Sure, >>>>>>> Portuguese is one of the most spoken languages in the world, but it's >>>>>>> not >>>>>>> because of the roughly 10 million inhabitants of Portugal, it's more >>>>>>> due to >>>>>>> the 200 million inhabitants of Brazil. So, we'd probably include >>>>>>> Brazillian >>>>>>> Portuguese. >>>>>>> >>>>>>> But English would be harder. There are more Americans than British, >>>>>>> but a lot of people are anti-American English or so. >>>>>>> >>>>>>> The whole move of including 8 languages. I'm not sure, I'd like to >>>>>>> know how much space that is. >>>>>>> >>>>>>> David "Munchor" Gomes >>>>>>> >>>>>>> On Sun, Sep 23, 2012 at 7:21 PM, Eduard Gotwig < >>>>>>> [email protected]> wrote: >>>>>>> >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> 2012/9/23 Eduard Gotwig <[email protected]> >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>> Hey, >>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>> I think about if we can add the 8 most popular languagee packs for >>>>>>>>> GNOME to the ISO image? There is still space left. >>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>> These 8 languages should be the ones, that are available on our >>>>>>>>> new website: >>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>> - [image: English]English >>>>>>>>> - [image: Français]Français >>>>>>>>> - [image: Deutsch]Deutsch >>>>>>>>> - [image: Italiano]Italiano >>>>>>>>> - [image: Español]Español >>>>>>>>> - [image: Português]Português >>>>>>>>> - [image: Polski]Polski >>>>>>>>> - [image: Nederlands]Nederlands >>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>> We cant include all, becouse they take too much space I guess. >>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> -- >>>>>>>> Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~elementary-translators >>>>>>>> Post to : [email protected] >>>>>>>> Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~elementary-translators >>>>>>>> More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> >>>>>>> >>>>>>> -- >>>>>>> Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~elementary-dev-community >>>>>>> Post to : [email protected] >>>>>>> Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~elementary-dev-community >>>>>>> More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp >>>>>>> >>>>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>> -- >>>> Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~elementary-dev-community >>>> Post to : [email protected] >>>> Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~elementary-dev-community >>>> More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp >>>> >>>> >>>> -- >>>> Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~elementary-dev-community >>>> Post to : [email protected] >>>> Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~elementary-dev-community >>>> More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp >>>> >>>> >>> >>> >>> -- >>> Best Regards, >>> Chris Triantafillis >>> >>> >> > > > -- > Best Regards, > Chris Triantafillis > > > -- > Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~elementary-dev-community > Post to : [email protected] > Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~elementary-dev-community > More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp > >
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