On Wed, 2012-06-13 at 19:26 +1000, Basil Chupin wrote:
The use of USB sticks is really not something to be seriously considered. Not everyone has the ability to use this medium.
percentage?
However, there is little difference cost-wise or effort-wise between having to burn a CD and a blank single-layer DVD.
I am NOT talking here about releasing 4.3GB of data to fill a SL DVD but saying that if the volume of data to be downloaded by users is only marginally greater then what would fit on a standard CD then there wouldn't be a problem.
In fact there were a few LIVEs "CD"s recently which I had to burn to a DVD.
Downloading ~800MB to be burnt onto a DVD is acceptable - but not downloading 4.3GB.
Discussion was more about 1GB instead of 700 or 800MB... Allthough i'm in favour of live-images of 1GB there is one risk: With repair or netboot images the incentive to keep the image small is obvious. Just like cd 700MB limitation of a cdrom. When that limitation is removed, there might be a tendency that for 12.2 the live image is 800MB, the next 1GB, next one 1.5GB. If not careful we end up with a live-blu-ray, live-data-centre or a live-cloud ;-)) hans -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-factory+owner@opensuse.org