Carlos E. R. composed on 2018-02-19 13:07 (UTC+0100):
On 2018-02-19 12:56, Ludwig Nussel wrote:
With KDE and GNOME we already have some redundancy wrt desktops on the DVD. That alone brings us to 4.1GB. The DVD size is a physical hard limit. There's just not more space on an actual blank DVD.
Nobody uses DVD today. We use USB sticks.
Wrong. I still buy DVDs in 100 packs. I've yet to use a USB stick for any openSUSE installation. Sticks have no practical provision for physical content labeling, and because of their wide variation in physics, are awful WRT physical storage, quite the opposite of DVDs. I made one once for Puppy, one for Slax, and one for Knoppix. In those cases I must install to a PC without an OM drive, I use either Knoppix to configure the HD with a bootloader and an openSUSE installation kernel and initrd for a net install, or temporarily move the target HD to a compatible PC that has an OM drive for either installation or pre-configuration to boot an installation system, or use an external HD in lieu of DVD. If I would ever find an external USB DVD drive not made by LG, Lite-On, HP or ASUS and not dependent on bus power, likely I'd get and use one of those as a fourth option. Maybe someday I'll try PXE, but so far, I've had no such compulsion. If the isos were bigger than fits a DVD as they are now, I'd probably never download any but the diminutive net install variety. -- "Wisdom is supreme; therefore get wisdom. Whatever else you get, get wisdom." Proverbs 4:7 (New Living Translation) Team OS/2 ** Reg. Linux User #211409 ** a11y rocks! Felix Miata *** http://fm.no-ip.com/ -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-factory+owner@opensuse.org