On Sunday 19 July 2020 16:25:31 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?
With the exception of this new Asus mobo, none of my other 4 machines can boot from usb. So I'd have to have locally written DVD's. Or in the case of the pi4, a usb driven u-sd card writer. > I always found optical media very unappealing, even back when its > capacity and price were strongly in its favor. Nowadays, I'm having > a hard time imagining a circumstance when it would be a good choice. > > > Stefan Cheers, Gene Heskett -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) If we desire respect for the law, we must first make the law respectable. - Louis D. Brandeis Genes Web page <http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene>
