Someone's missing the point...

[swhiser]

Behdad Esfahbod wrote:

>On Wed, 10 Aug 2005, Greg DeKoenigsberg wrote:
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>>I agree with this too -- except that a DVD covers only half of our target.
>>What we really need:
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>>1. A Live CD;
>>2. A one-CD install;
>>3. A DVD.
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Agree that DVD is expensive and not efficient approach to world-wide 
market.  (Although I dont know what you have that deserves to go on a CD.) 

One-CD is brilliant.  Live CD also.  The trouble with One-CD is also 
bandwidth.

-Sam

>Just a reminder that the main problem with DVDs is burning them.
>The population that can burn a DVD is far far smaller than those
>who can read a DVD which is not IMHO _that_ much smaller than
>those who can read a CD.  So distributing only DVDs is not quite
>as bad as having only DVDs for download.
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>>We can spew out all the DVDs we want, but we're getting killed on the
>>one-CD install in most of the world.
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>>My hope is that we make some headway in the Live CD project.  It will do
>>two things:
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>>  a. Give us a Live CD (obviously);
>>  b. Give us great tools for selecting the right packages for the one-CD
>>     install.
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>>Darko Ilic of the Live CD project should be putting code up soon.  I'm
>>hoping to pull a project together, soon, that focuses on this problem.
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>Make sure we have a DVD that contains both live and installable
>stuff.  Better yet is to be able to install right from inside the
>live session.
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>That's Wooo!  You like it?  Do you want to
>install?
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I believe that's 'wwwwhhhhooooo00000()()()()()OOOOOHHHH'

>You can browse in the browser for problems you may face
>at install time, get on the IRC for some live suppor!  AFAIK no
>other distro has done that before.  That can be a killer feature,
>but a bit harder to get, but not thta much ;).
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>So, yes, lets go for world domination with FC5. :)
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>>--g
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>--behdad
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