Re: Iso image size

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Gábor Boskovits transcribed 1.3K bytes:
> I don't know what we are currently doing to get the installer iso image
> sized down, but I caught some discussion yesterday on irc, that the image
> is actually very well compressible, and checking the sizes it really is.
> 
> Might that be possible to do something like compressing the root filesystem
> image on the iso image, and decompress it from initrd before mounting?
> 
> Or do we already do that?
> 
> It might worth consideration, if that makes the image fit onto a CD.

Are there any reasons why we should really consider CDs a target
in 2017-almost-2018?

I threw away around 500 CDs + 100 floppy disks with backup data of the
last 20 years quiet recently (and only kept originals).
All I'm getting here (West Germany) are BluRays and similar opticals.
And I predict that even this will go away in the near future.

So why focus on the artifical size of optical disks, especially a
format that has been considered old by most if not all other distros
above the size of tiny distros?

If this may sound like harsh criticism: I'm only curious.
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