Re: Testing CDs for GNOME3, KDE and LXDE are missing from the download page
It makes sense that CDs are dead. But it still helps a user like me if
the download size that is around 600MB to 700 MB, which is one-fifth
the size of a DVD download thereby saving me bandwidth cost while
being large enough to contain most of the essential software I need.
netinst is too restrictive for me because I would like to write the
ISO on to a CD or USB drive once and then use that to bring up my base
system for the next few years. DVD is too large for me because the
download five times bigger. A 600 MB to 700 MB CD download is just
right for me.
I understand that Gnome and KDE no longer fits in a 700 MB CD and
that's fine. I also appreciate that you guys are making an effort to
still provide XFCE CDs. It really does not matter whether you call it
CD or DVD as long as you can provide me a 600-700 MB download. I am
pretty sure there would be users who would similarly prefer 700 MB
downloads for LXDE.
On 16 March 2017 at 20:33, Steve McIntyre <steve@einval.com> wrote:
> On Sun, Mar 12, 2017 at 09:17:49AM +0530, Lone Learner wrote:
>>On 9 March 2017 at 14:51, Steve McIntyre <steve@einval.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> We've stopped building CDs for most purposes - they're just too small
>>> to be useful in a lot of cases, and have been causing issues for
>>> users. We also switched to offering the choice of desktop at tasksel
>>> time, which makes it less important to offer multiple different CDs
>>> tuned to install each desktop.
>>>
>>> For some time now we've only been building two CDs per architecture:
>>> the netinst and *1* single-desktop installer CD for xfce. If you want
>>> to install other desktops, grab the netinst and select during
>>> installation or use DVD#1.
>>
>>Can someone please share why the single-desktop installer CD was made
>>in favour of Xfce? Why was not some other desktop like GNOM3, KDE or
>>LXDE selected for the single-desktop installer CD?
>
> Gnome and KDE don't fit on a single CD - we've been struggling for a
> couple of releases to get a reasonable subset of each to fit, and it's
> just not working any more. We actually dropped the CDs altogether for
> a while, then on request brought back XFCE as a lone option for a
> single-CD desktop. XFCE is reasonably small. and popular enough.
>
> CDs are basically dead - the world moved on to DVDs several years ago,
> and now USB flash is probably most common for most users.
>
> --
> Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK. steve@einval.com
> Is there anybody out there?
>
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