[Pkg-xfce-devel] Reverting to GNOME for jessie's default desktop

Paul R. Tagliamonte paultag at gmail.com
Sun Aug 10 18:55:19 UTC 2014


Not everyone has reliable internet for the hours it takes to install on
some infra.

Also with multiple machines you might have to pay for the same data
transfer twice.
On Aug 10, 2014 2:40 PM, "Kees de Jong" <keesdejong at gmail.com> wrote:

> Why are we discussing CD/DVD sizes? Why not just use an USB
> netinstall? It's then possible to download and install the stuff you
> need, if you don't want to use a lot of bandwidth then choose no
> desktop environment or XFCE/LXDE. But if you can spare some more time
> then you can install GNOME/KDE. Seems like a good deal. And USB sticks
> are cheaper (also easier to reuse) so I don't get the 'hurting
> developing countries' argument.
>
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