Fedora Weighs Dropping Release Criteria For DVD Optical Media
Fedora Weighs Dropping Release Criteria For DVD Optical Media
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Fedora Weighs Dropping Release Criteria For DVD Optical Media
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It's probaly not needed at this point. You can get flash drives crazy cheap.
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Any computer that meets the minimum requirements for Fedora will support booting from USB. The only reason left to boot from a DVD is if you need read only media for security purposes.
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Or you know, MP3s on DVD for the car.
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Do you boot Linux from your music player?
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Sounds like a project to me!
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Did you misread? They wrote "the only reason left to boot from a DVD", so the use case you replied with has nothing to do with the topic.
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And it's getting harder to find decent optical drives. USB external ones are utter buttgarbage.
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I was hopeful I would find a decent bluray drive to rip some movies I have but I cant see anything priced as I would have thought and decent.
I got a usb dvd one that works fine
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I've got an old Dell that has a blu-ray burner built in. Thing is OLD, it's got a Core i7 processor with a 3 digit model number. But it runs Mint just fine. I beat the hell out of the poor thing ripping my whole DVD collection, and basically it's my optical media authoring box now. I rarely crank it up but if I truly need optical media made it's what I turn to.
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I just ripped the Blu-Ray drive from my father’s PC since he wasn’t using it.
Since my machine doesn’t have 5.25” bays, I just have SATA cables dangling out the side of the case. I’ve probably ripped more CDs than Blu-Rays, though.
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Funnily enough my main computer does have a 5 1/4" bay. I wanted a Fractal meshify but there weren't any in the world when I went to build my computer so I bought a Fractal Pop, and it has an optical bay down in the PSU basement.
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It’ll definitely be a difficult undertaking, but I plan on really trying to have a 5.25” bay when I build another PC.
That probably won’t be for a couple more years, though. I’m on a Ryzen 5 2600 and RX 580, and I really don’t do that much intense gaming; a GPU upgrade is tempting so I can actually use ROCm for some casual Blender Cycles renders, though. I hope that the already dismal supply of those 5.25 cases doesn’t dwindle even more.
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Get a Fractal Pop. It's got a drive bay.
I have built a computer in a Fractal Meshify before, and I prefer that case, but the Pop is alright.
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Ah thats a great idea! I got an optiplex second hand to try my hand at linux recently. I wonder if it has a bd drive. Its an i7 too.
I want to take all my media and rip it for sharing with the fam. Over covid I was putting things on my cloud for others to grab but I want to do a full jellyfin build now.
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Mine is an old XPS box, and it's kind of cool to have because it's got a lot of obsolete hardware. A PCI slot, external SATA, it might even have Firewire. So it's a relatively modern box I can run modern software on with old IO.
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