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Why are they living in a CD world?
Why are they living in a CD world?
Posted Feb 24, 2005 5:18 UTC (Thu) by Xman (subscriber, #10620)Parent article: How would you shrink Fedora?
CD technology is *very* old. Let magazine publishers ship a DVD with the whole distro on it if they want to save costs. Start thinking about making network installs. I don't know, to me it's scary that Fedora's is still so closely tied to a particular media.
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Why are they living in a CD world?
Posted Feb 24, 2005 9:36 UTC (Thu) by james (subscriber, #1325) [Link]
There is a DVD version. There is also a CD version.
CDs are practically universal in a way that DVDs and high-speed internet access is not. In particular, there are too many DVD writers that write DVDs other DVD-ROMs can't read. And there are still a lot of computers out there without DVD drives (the only three applications I've found are DVD videos, magazine DVDs, and Linux distros: many computers don't need DVD drives). And there are way too many people without high-speed Net access.
And there are also concerns about disk space usage for the mirrors, and bandwidth for everyone.
Why are they living in a CD world?
Posted Feb 24, 2005 16:44 UTC (Thu) by tjc (subscriber, #137) [Link]
CD technology is *very* old.Or maybe you're just very young. ;-)
Reel-to-reel, now that's old. When I was a kid...
Why are they living in a CD world?
Posted Feb 25, 2005 15:19 UTC (Fri) by eru (subscriber, #2753) [Link]
CD technology is *very* old.Maybe that is why it finally works reliably... I recall the earlier days of CD-R:s, when there was just about a 50% probability that disk burned in one model of drive was readable in another...