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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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5d ago

Fedora Weighs Dropping Release Criteria For DVD Optical Media

www.phoronix.com /news/Fedora-Release-Criteria-CD-DVDs

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It's probaly not needed at this point. You can get flash drives crazy cheap.
- 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.
  
  Or you know, MP3s on DVD for the car.
- And it's getting harder to find decent optical drives. USB external ones are utter buttgarbage.
  
  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

I mean I still use the iso attached to a virtual cd-rom to create virtual machines
- Yeah but that's not limited to physical DVD size constraints.
  
  Sorry, the issue is size? Like, "we can't fit into these clothes so we're gonna go Jabba the Hut", all naked and corpulent?

Damn it, on the very day my DVD burner arrived, right after the weekend when I switched to Fedora Atomic Sway. Oh this universe.
- This doesn't mean Fedora will not boot from DVDs anymore, it means any optical media bug won't stop new Fedora release, any related bug will be squashed like any other regular bug after release
  
  Thanks for the reply, I was mainly joking. The burner will be used for purposes other than burning Fedora images, but I found it funny how it all came together yesterday.
- They say the best time to burn a DVD is 20 years ago. Next best time is today.
  
  I think 20 years ago is about the last time I used a DVD

So boot floppies are right out?
- And so are other derivatives. No cardoard either.

Besides the corrections others have said, I really can’t think of any reason people would intentionally use legacy BIOS on a machine with UEFI for a new install.
Like, I could get doing it for an old install - I know someone who installed Windows 7 in 2015 on their then-new desktop build and later upgraded to 10 but is stuck on legacy BIOS for now with that machine because 7 only ran on that.
I could see something similarly jank happening to someone in the Linux world and then decide not to address it for “if it ain’t broke, don’t fix it reasons”, but certainly not for no reason.

You're talking about hats, right?

Well if they could get it to fit on a mini-dvd or a CD then nothing would be lost but I guess pre-UEFI systems are slowly going to be abandoned. (Guess coreboot community needs more funding)
- My pre-UEFI system can boot from a USB drive.
  Most still-functional ones can.
  
  yeah, i think you'd have to make a lot of effort to find a pc newer than 20 years old that doesn't support usb booting
- Don't forget that a lot of people still prefers legacy BIOS, even on modern system.
  
  But most of those should support booting from USB devices.

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