Re: FC5 - Fedora in General

On 30 Jun 2006, in the Usenet newsgroup linux.redhat, in article
<1151671328.866053.164440@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, Johnnyb9b@xxxxxxxxx
wrote:

Developers...

HIGHLY unlikely that they monitor this group.

Slim it down a bit. 4 CD's???

-rw-r--r-- 1 ftp ftp 3253669888 Mar 15 04:49 FC-5-i386-DVD.iso
-rw-r--r-- 1 ftp ftp 687235072 Mar 15 04:47 FC-5-i386-disc1.iso
-rw-r--r-- 1 ftp ftp 700618752 Mar 15 04:48 FC-5-i386-disc2.iso
-rw-r--r-- 1 ftp ftp 721016832 Mar 15 04:50 FC-5-i386-disc3.iso
-rw-r--r-- 1 ftp ftp 720910336 Mar 15 04:51 FC-5-i386-disc4.iso
-rw-r--r-- 1 ftp ftp 387753984 Mar 15 04:52 FC-5-i386-disc5.iso
-rw-r--r-- 1 ftp ftp 79122432 Mar 15 04:31 FC-5-i386-rescuecd.iso

Five actually - and that doesn't include the source.

Maybe make a Minimal install CD or a LIVE CD?

http://www.distrowatch.com/

Just saying that it may discourage SOME people from downloading.

The average user seems to want 8 tons of eye-candy crap that looks just like
windoze. The popular distributors are just giving the customer what they
want. Do you have any idea how bloated KDE and Gnome are? No one is forcing
you to install everything. It's actually possible to install from a single
CD (although the stuff _you_ want to install may be scattered on different
CDs because what _you_ want may not match what _other_ people want). You can
always download the packages individually or even do an FTP install, which
minimizes unwanted downloads.

Old guy
.

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