On Sun, Jun 10, 2012 at 7:45 AM, Per Jessen
Felix Miata wrote:
On 2012/06/08 22:35 (GMT+0200) Per Jessen composed:
Why is it that USB sticks are not a real alternative?
For some, money matters, sometimes a lot. If a CD reader dies, a free replacement is highly likely available from somewhere, unlike a DVD reader. The cheapest sticks cost many times the price of the most expensive OM blank I've ever run across, and that price gap multiplies when buying OM in spools of 25, 50 or 100, even when including the cost of paper sleeves or plastic holders.
A 32Gb USB stick is about the same price a 50-pack of CD-Rs and will easily outlast the CD-Rs.
OM can be conveniently be labeled with a whole lot more legible text regarding what is contained.
Yes, that is an issue - we have to get a lot better at including descriptive text on the splash- or boot-image.
Orderly storage for OM is easy to acquire and manage. I've yet to encounter any stick organizer, and considering the variety of stick sizes and shapes, I'd be surprised if I ever did. Miniaturization isn't always a good thing.
Well, how many would you expect to have around? I just have one, maybe two USB sticks with everything on (11.4, 12.1, current Factory, 32bit, 64bit, memtest), easily navigated through with a boot-menu.
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Speaking of USB sticks, I find it a bit disconcerting that both Fedora and Ubuntu "full install DVD" images will fit on a 4GB USB stick, but openSUSE needs an 8 GB stick. I just bought three 4 GB sticks ($28US for a three-pack). I now have enough 4GB USB sticks for GNOME and KDE on 12.2, GNOME on 12.1, GNOME and "DVD" for Fedora 17 and 16, OpenShift Origin and a spare. ;-) -- Twitter: http://twitter.com/znmeb Computational Journalism Server http://j.mp/compjournoserver Data is the new coal - abundant, dirty and difficult to mine. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-project+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, email: opensuse-project+owner@opensuse.org