On Mon, Nov 30, 2009 at 6:00 PM, Ravi Kumar <ra2...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > > On Sun, Nov 29, 2009 at 11:45 PM, Ramnarayan.K <ramnaraya...@gmail.com>wrote: > >> Hi >> >> . DVD's have become quite >> ubiquitous, prices of DVD's now are less than what CD's where at the >> time of the first Ubuntu distribution. >> > > Who cares about the price of DVD vs CD. The actual aim supposed to have a > CD image rather than DVD, so that users can spend less download bandwidth > and get the latest Ubuntu. If you want to have those extra dropped packages, > you can still download and install (usign apt-get/synaptics). More new > drivers, support for hardware integrated in Install CD would probably > require more space. And CD isn't getting bigger in storage. So how this > would be tackled? > > i don't think its the download size that they are bothered about. I think they are looking more at people who will receive Ubuntu CD's . If someone can download a CD then download an additional cd worth of software is no big deal. The point i am trying to make is - a) either linux or Ubuntu is getting bloated , so much so that decent bits of software - esp. software that make a cd not worth passing around. b.) dropping gimp is in effect saying this distro is a dumbed down version - a lite version, and hey if you want the real stuff just get to our repos and its all there - am sure a newbie won't even know that a software like gimp exists and hence won't even bother searching. Ubuntu i think is misguidedly following the adage "what they don't know cannot hurt" I think this is really not a problem if you have online repository access. > > Yes it is a problem. Till 9.04 i could install an Ubuntu CD and not worry that critical software is missing ( in fact not so because a few releases back thunderbird got dropped then in 9.04 wvdial), In effect i had a fully operational system. What was missing was the goody stuff - and of course media codecs. ram
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