Re: Switch default installation image link?
On Tue, 6 Jun 2017 17:39:42 -0500, Gunnar Wolf <gwolf@debian.org>
wrote:
>I'll chime in to what others have said. I think DVD images should not
>be the default/main download venue. Even though the careful package
>ordering by (alleged?) popularity, I am sure a great deal of Debian
>installs use under half of the packages provided by the first DVD (and
>many that are not there, of course). A completely offline user will
>have to juggle no matter if they got the DVD, and a connected user (no
>matter their available bandwidth) will spend more time waiting for the
>network if they choose to install from DVD.
And many people will end up downloading the full DVD set anyway
because they didn't know any better and they didn't read the docs.
Greetings
Marc
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