So Long, SuSE, We Hardly Knew Ye!

[Net Llama!]

On Mon, 6 Nov 2006, Michael Hipp wrote:
> Net Llama! wrote:
>> On Mon, 6 Nov 2006, Michael Hipp wrote:
>>> Bruce Marshall wrote:
>>>> Ok, what's the best way to get a copy of kunbuntu??  I'd rather not download
>>>> the whole thing unless it can be done in chunks...  Would rather get a DVD or
>>>> CD's.
>>>>
>>>> (another disgruntled SuSE user)
>>> Download it here:
>>>   http://www.kubuntu.org/download.php
>>>     (note that Kubuntu is only *one* CD.)
>>
>> Really?  Ubuntu is a DVD, so what did they cut out of Kubuntu to get it on
>> one CD?
>
> Ubuntu/Kubuntu/Xubuntu/Edubuntu has *always* been *one* CD. That has been a
> non-negotiable design criteria from the beginning.
>
> So the question is, what did they add to fatten it out to a DVD? Here's the
> answer from the kubuntu.org website:
>
> "The DVD contains both Live Desktop and Alternate installers, as well as the
> other packages in our main archive."

Urm, that sounds like code for "we left out 75% of the stuff that a power 
user would want on the CD, but its on the DVD".  At any rate, you can't 
install Ubuntu via kickstart unless you have the DVD.  I learned that the 
long & hard way.

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