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Developers Discuss Future Of CD/DVD Optical Images For Fedora
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Installing from a flash drive or a CD should make no difference. Both are made from the same iso files at the end-user level. Unless Fedora devs want to introduce some obscure, unnecessary way of distributing the OS, I don't even know what they're talking about. Still desperately trying to prove they're not Microsoft? We know.
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I use ISO images very frequently for install all my VirtualBox virtual machines: Fedora, Mint and CentOS mainly. That use to happen in a monthly basis, depending of what application or database I want to put into the VM. Because the ISO are already downloaded for the VMs, I normally burn it and use those also for bare metal installation. So I use ISO images continuously.
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I can't say I use CD's any more but I still use 8.5GB DVD's to backup data. I use USB sticks too but I dunno about long-term storage on those things. I've still got 20 year old DVD's laying around here that work perfectly. I thought about Blu-Ray for storage but it's not really at the top of my list right now but I'll look into it.
These guys forget that people are still using 5 year old Mobos that don't support booting from USB. So this is a bad Idea I think. I don't think it was thought through. Even still, I think somebody would make the DVD ISOs if they decided to stop doing it.
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Originally posted by ssokolow View PostI always install my OSes using DVD+R. As long as the disc isn't burned multi-session, it ensures that I can verify the disc against its hash when I burn it and then be confident it won't get infected with malware later.
Originally posted by cjcox View PostMe thinks the Fedora developers all got new hardware as an early Christmas present? Maybe they forgot that older hardware is clueless about booting from USB? Older hardware still being 64bit that is...
Originally posted by eydee View PostInstalling from a flash drive or a CD should make no difference. Both are made from the same iso files at the end-user level. Unless Fedora devs want to introduce some obscure, unnecessary way of distributing the OS, I don't even know what they're talking about. Still desperately trying to prove they're not Microsoft? We know.
Originally posted by jpp650 View PostI use ISO images very frequently for install all my VirtualBox virtual machines: Fedora, Mint and CentOS mainly. That use to happen in a monthly basis, depending of what application or database I want to put into the VM. Because the ISO are already downloaded for the VMs, I normally burn it and use those also for bare metal installation. So I use ISO images continuously.
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Originally posted by Mike Frett View PostThese guys forget that people are still using 5 year old Mobos that don't support booting from USB. So this is a bad Idea I think. I don't think it was thought through. Even still, I think somebody would make the DVD ISOs if they decided to stop doing it.
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Another reason not to use Fedora.
Seriously guys???
I have DVD drives on all my desktop computers and my Laptop
I wanted to buy a Blu-ray drive too, but I cannot afford it at the moment.
For movies these are perfec because of their menus, no video container supports them as far as I know.
For testing Linux distros I have rewritable CDs and DVDs.
If I want to give a friend a Linux distro to check it out, I give him the optical disk, I cannot afford to give him my flash drive.
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Originally posted by renox View PostI install Linux from ISO images stored on an external HDD which simulate being a CD-drive.
You have the capacity and reliability of an HDD and the ease of use similar to an USB key: best of both world.
Thanks.
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Originally posted by Danny3 View PostAnother reason not to use Fedora.
Seriously guys???
I have DVD drives on all my desktop computers and my Laptop
I wanted to buy a Blu-ray drive too, but I cannot afford it at the moment.
For movies these are perfec because of their menus, no video container supports them as far as I know.
For testing Linux distros I have rewritable CDs and DVDs.
If I want to give a friend a Linux distro to check it out, I give him the optical disk, I cannot afford to give him my flash drive.
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