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It's left out due to space constraints. There simply isn't enough room to include the basic software and all the language support needed on a single cd.

Before you ask "why not a dvd?": for right now, the target audience is a user of a single cd. "

Well the current iso of opensolaris-93 is delivered as a dvd image already because it exceeded the cd size. You can get the same release minus some goodies in a cd size iso image. So the target audience must not make that much of a difference. In fact I haven't read any open marketing material that claimed the size of the image is going to make and difference at all for opensolaris. That is by force one size fits all.

---Bob

Well the current iso of opensolaris-93 is delivered as a dvd image already because it exceeded the cd size. You can get the same release minus some goodies in a cd size iso image. So the target audience must not make that much of a difference. In fact I haven't read any open marketing material that claimed the size of the image is going to make and difference at all for opensolaris. That is by force one size fits all.

---Bob
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The target audience for OpenSolaris 2008.05 is very different from the SXCE audience.

If you read the advocacy, indiana and other mailing lists you will find many posts about the fact that a good portion of users do not have DVD drives for the users we are targeting. Especially in developing countries.

Limiting the size of the install media also helps focus the core of the system.

Ubuntu limits themselves to a single CD too, but they have less multi-lingual support and only deliver a single architecture (32-bit or 64-bit, not both) on a single CD.

Edited 2008-07-16 21:26 UTC