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Fedora could learn something from Debian
Fedora could learn something from Debian
Posted Feb 24, 2005 16:31 UTC (Thu) by twiens (subscriber, #12274)Parent article: How would you shrink Fedora?
As a Debian and Ubuntu user, one of the main reasons I've not bothered to try Fedora is because it takes four CD's. To make more than one CD is just a waste of materials which I need to store just in case, but probably will never use again. Other distributions have a lot to learn from Debian and its derivatives. I've installed once and I can add, remove or upgrade packages, or upgrade the entire system without making any more disks. I can understand the frustration with the release times with Debian, but when in comes to packaging, Debian got it right.
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Fedora could learn something from Debian
Posted Feb 24, 2005 18:08 UTC (Thu) by mattdm (subscriber, #18) [Link]
FWIW, you can install Fedora over the network using just a small boot CD (or no CDs at all with pxeboot).