11-02-2014, 10:31 AM
I certainly don't think that restricting size to a CD is important - the smaller systems such as Netbooks don't have optical readers anyway, so USB sticks are necessary for installation.
I agree with others that a fully-featured browser is important during the pre-installation, testing phase which most potential escapees from Windows will want, therefore it must be part of the release.
I use both Firefox and Chromium, and while only one is actually required to allow the potential user to experiment with Linux, since size is not a problem I would suggest both are shipped.
Incidentally, I also agree with an earlier suggestion that if size were a real problem, then an obvious candidate for removing from the release media would be LibreOffice, not a browser!
I agree with others that a fully-featured browser is important during the pre-installation, testing phase which most potential escapees from Windows will want, therefore it must be part of the release.
I use both Firefox and Chromium, and while only one is actually required to allow the potential user to experiment with Linux, since size is not a problem I would suggest both are shipped.
Incidentally, I also agree with an earlier suggestion that if size were a real problem, then an obvious candidate for removing from the release media would be LibreOffice, not a browser!