On Monday, January 24, 2005 at 23:18 +0000, David Cathcart wrote:
I'd agree here.
It's obviously true - every DVD drive can ready CDs, but not the other way around. Still, the attraction not having to pick & choose packages is huge. Can we find out how many people in the target audience would be able to use a DVD?
If anyone can find a recent statistic of % of pc's with dvd's that would help us make our decision.
I'll see if I can find anything solid we can base a decision on.
My utterly unscientific impression is that most home machines from the last 2-3 years will have DVD drives, and machines from earlier are much less likely to. Work-owned machines also seem to be slightly less likely to have DVD drives. But as I say, this is just an impression.
Keep in mind the last cd was full, i had to go through morphix removieng un-needed packages to fit things in. If we want to do more than update things we're going to have to either drop something or go for a dvd.
I know; it's probably impossible to include more packages than we already have unless we go to DVD. I suppose it's possible to find a few to remove, but I doubt there is much.
Stuff we should also include: (i) localised scripts. We have some dialer scripts, etc, but there might be more we can do there. (ii) some reading material about Free Software (and IFSO); text, at least, is easy to include, and has value.