So Long, SuSE, We Hardly Knew Ye!

[Michael Hipp]

Net Llama! wrote:
> 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".

Power users generally have access to the Internet. Besides 'buntu has always 
been squarely aimed at users. With the full install of the desktop version you 
can surf the web, email, do OpenOffice stuff, play games, IRC, and eighteen 
dozen other things users want to do. And anything else is a few clicks or a 
simple apt-get away.

>  At any rate, you can't 
> install Ubuntu via kickstart unless you have the DVD.

So who cares? That affects a minuscule percentage of Linux users and a 
nonexistent percentage of potential converts.

Michael