Re: Wild and crazy times for the development tree

[Naoki]

Totally agree. DVD ISOs are far more convenient and eliminate the need to argue over how many CDs FC should fit on. I vote to stop pandering to old technology, CD-ROMs have been kicking around for twenty years and are clearly not up to todays requirements. The most compelling argument made so far was that of "If you only have a 56k modem and internet usage is expensive and time consuming ", but doesn't it take the same amount of time to download 3,4,(5?) CDs as it does one DVD?  Callum said it best, if you really can't be downloading a full DVD ISO then get the netboot iso and only download the exact RPMs you need. That's even better than CD. Callum Lerwick wrote: On Mon, 2006-03-20 at 21:15 +0000, Paul F. Johnson wrote: A *much* reduced core size (5 CDs + rescue is getting a bit much) IMHO its getting time to just forget CDs. Put out DVD isos only. (At the very least, stop worrying about how many CDs core fills and worry about fitting on one DVDR...) Especially with yum backed network installs becoming available. If you don't want to download and burn an entire DVD iso, just download a 10-50mb network install iso. This is what I do with debian on the rare occasion I install a system from scratch. Since I only install a system once every few years, its a huge waste to me to download and burn 5+ disks that I'm only going to use once. Someone on IRC was arguing that in many parts of the world, bandwidth is very expensive. I don't see how 5 CDs to download vs a DVD make a difference here. The real question is, how common are DVD burners, and most importantly, DVD readers in various parts of the world. I suppose the thing to do is keep an eye on CD downloads vs DVD. Let the community decide.