Hello Debian CD developers, I've just read news [1] about the plan to drop business card CD images: | There's a plan to drop the "business card CD images" of Debian since | they're rarely (if ever) used and tested. [1] http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=MTEzNzA Is this true?!? That sounds really unexpected to me, since business card ISO images have become my preferred method of installation: they are small and handy, easy to download without overloading mirrors (even easier than netinst images), they do not include base system packages so that even the base system is installed by downloading packages from mirrors [2], they fit nicely even on older (and smaller) USB sticks, ... I think I would miss business card ISO images, if they were dropped. [2] this saved my day once: quite some time ago, I had to install Debian testing on a box and a bug in a base system package prevented the correct installation; the bug was already fixed and the fix had just migrated to testing, but the base system included in the nightly-generated netinst ISO image was from the day before; using the business card ISO image worked around this issue! P.S.: please Cc me on replies, since I am not subscribed to debian-cd: thanks in advance! -- http://www.inventati.org/frx/frx-gpg-key-transition-2010.txt New GnuPG key, see the transition document! ..................................................... Francesco Poli . GnuPG key fpr == CA01 1147 9CD2 EFDF FB82 3925 3E1C 27E1 1F69 BFFE
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