Proposal for solving CD Size problems

[Gnu/Linux Technology]

I read with attention all the point of view.
On thing is sure : all have not DVD inside.
So it would be suicidal to only propose a DVD, we have to have install 
media with minimal and functional Ubuntu.
An idea to have more space on cd could be to replace OOo by smaller apps 
(Abiword, Gnumeric) so the user with network connection could later 
install OOo if needed.
Another idea could be making like Debian, offering a cd set and a dvd 
set on repository.

The only problem will be what to choose in ship it section. Here I am 
more to stay on a cd because keeping installable on older harware.

t u a écrit :
> I'm not sure the two [RAM & DVDROM] are correlated to that extend. For
> example, my desktop machine has 512MB RAM but no DVD ROM.
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> also, it's easier and cheaper to just put in a little bit of RAM than to
> swap a built-in CD for a DVD. [I know people who use RAM as keychain]
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> Steven Harms wrote:
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>> Since this discussion is all about people without dvd drives, at what
>> point do we assume they have enough processing power to decompress the
>> image hundreds of times per session?  I mean if they don't have a dvd
>> drive, then they probably have < 256MB of ram, so when things are
>> swapped in and out of ram massive decompressing will occur, and again
>> the same goes with their processing power. 
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