Re: Final CDs being written for Stretch - 9.13 release - prior to LTS
On Sun, 2020-07-19 at 16:25 -0400, Stefan Monnier wrote:
> > > At this point in 2020, I think it would be reasonable to only produce
> > > netinst images and jigdo (and live, but that's a different-ish
> > > project). Drop the DVD images.
>
> An alternative is to have "virtual ISO images", i.e. images which are
> constructed on the fly (presumably by jigdo) on the web-server side.
>
> > Though this doesn't apply to me, I can imagine a fair few people in the
> > world who don't have access to fast, cheap internet who would
> > appreciate a DVD image that they can simply download somewhere where
> > they can get good internet. e.g. library, work, education
> > establishment. Or could get someone else to do that and mail it.
>
> I'm not sure why the discussion is always around DVD images.
> Would you be equally happy with an image only for a USB flash drive, or
> is it important for it to be an image for optical media?
Debian's 'DVD' images are isohybrid and work for booting from USB flash
drives, which is how I use them now [1]. So, for me, an image that only
works on a USB stick would be fine, but what benefit is gained by
removing support for optical media which some other people may need?
[1] Actually, I use the net install 'CD' images, CD/DVD/Blueray(?) just
gets used to distinguish capacity of optical media needed to contain
them I believe.
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Tixy
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