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CD/DVD clarification suggestion on download page



Hello Debian web developers,


First I would like to congratulate you for developing such a great OS, probably the best Linux distribution.


I have 1 suggestion for you guys:


When I downloaded the DVD images on the url below I thought that I needed to download all 3 DVDs in order to install Debian etch. It seems that I was mistaken and only the 1st DVD is needed for the default install.

I think that this puts off many people which think that they need to download 13GB worth of DVDs when only the first is really needed.

I think that you guys should include a big-sized comment about this in this web address below because I think that many people are downloading the smaller sized Ubuntu instead because of this. Actually, personally I tried Ubuntu first because of this reason but I didn't like it too much so I kept on trying 4 or 5 others until I finally decided to download the 13GB of Debian.

According to distrowatch.org , Ubuntu has roughly 3 times as many users as you guys which is not fair, since Ubuntu comes from Debian.


http://www.debian.org/releases/stable/debian-installer/


Hope you guys will take my suggestion into account.


Also, hoping to try the official release of the *BSD kernel version of Debian soon.


Regards,
David
(An average computer user coming from Windows; sick of Windows viruses !)

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