elementary OS

Luna's size

Asked by tim schoen

will luna be 700MB, 750MB or 1GB
I think its almost impossible to make luna fit on a 700MB CD (i tried with UCK :p), especially because ubuntu will be 750MB.
But people that have an old pc without usb booting (including me) will just not be able to install Luna.
At the other side: when we use a 1gb usb stick, we can add really all our apps, add more walls etc.
If we choose the second one, we must have another way to install Luna for older pc's.
So what do you think?

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Best Sergey "Shnatsel" Davidoff (shnatsel) said : 		#1

It's possible :P
UCK has one flaw - you have to remove older kernels manually, otherwise they will remain on the CD and take at about 50Mb.
In addition, since we don't ship non-native stuff like Libreoffice, Mono, and XUL-based Firefox/Thunderbird, we have greatly less dependencies. So I guess we'll stick with a CD while we can, and maybe will provide a DVD edition too.

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Allen Lowe (lallenlowe) said : 		#2

elementary fits very easily on a CD, we strip out a ton of stuff that
Ubuntu ships.

Allen Lowe

On Thu, Jan 12, 2012 at 12:25 PM, Sergey Davidoff
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> Question #184509 on elementary OS changed:
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> Sergey Davidoff proposed the following answer:
> It's possible :P
> UCK has one flaw - you have to remove older kernels manually, otherwise they will remain on the CD and take at about 50Mb.
> In addition, since we don't ship non-native stuff like Libreoffice, Mono, and XUL-based Firefox/Thunderbird, we have greatly less dependencies. So I guess we'll stick with a CD while we can, and maybe will provide a DVD edition too.
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tim schoen (timschoen123-deactivatedaccount) said : 		#3

Thanks Sergey Davidoff, that solved my question.

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tim schoen (timschoen123-deactivatedaccount) said : 		#4

Thanks for the quick response!