Gives you more comparability on pen drives, too. Lots of people probably have a 8gb stick lying around, people are somewhat less likely to have a bigger one.
Just out of curiosity, I wonder what percentage of the downloaders burned a DVD to boot the ISO. I have to imgaine almost everyone is using USB sticks these days.
What the hell. Why so heavy
IIRC, it is a current limitation of rpm-ostree, which results in an ISO that is nearly double in size.
Because it downloads nothing and it’s got several softwares and tools bundled in
It’s got most stuff on it. They’d include the entire repo if they could, but a dvd only fits 8gb.
Gives you more comparability on pen drives, too. Lots of people probably have a 8gb stick lying around, people are somewhat less likely to have a bigger one.
Just out of curiosity, I wonder what percentage of the downloaders burned a DVD to boot the ISO. I have to imgaine almost everyone is using USB sticks these days.
There are dozens of us! Dozens!
(Installed it on an older DDR3 PC for someone)
To fit all the gamin’