ubuntu-website-content

Wrong description of DVD content

Bug #873350 reported by Hernando Torque on 2011-10-13

This bug affects 2 people

Affects		Status	Importance	Assigned to	Milestone
	ubuntu-website-content	Fix Released	Undecided	Gerry Carr

Bug Description

As far as I understand, starting with Ubuntu 11.10, the DVD version does contain more than just the langpacks, so the description on http://www.ubuntu.com/download/ubuntu/alternative-download should see an update.

"Don't be confused, even though DVDs can hold far more data than the typical Ubuntu CD, the main benefit of the DVD downloads is to get access to all of the available language packs. Most people will be fine with the standard CD installer. There are fewer download locations for the DVD images and this list is updated less frequently than for the CD images."

Hernando Torque (htorque) on 2011-10-13

visibility:

private → public

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Ellen Arnold (ellenjanearnold) wrote on 2011-10-19:

Hi Gerry,

Can you let me know what the copy should be and I'll make the update?

Thanks!

Ellen

Changed in ubuntu-website-content:
status:	New → Confirmed
assignee:	nobody → Gerry Carr (gerry-carr)

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Gerry Carr (gerry-carr) wrote on 2011-10-19:

I haven't the foggiest

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Hernando Torque (htorque) wrote on 2011-10-19:

FWIW, Jorge Castro created a list about what's on the DVD here: http://askubuntu.com/questions/10844/what-is-on-the-dvd-edition-of-ubuntu/60969#60969

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Hernando Torque (htorque) wrote on 2012-03-09:

Hey, any updates on this? :-)

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Hernando Torque (htorque) wrote on 2012-04-20:

dvd-additions Edit (3.7 KiB, text/plain)

I'm attaching the diff between "casper/filesystem.manifest" minus "casper/filesystem.manifest-remove" for CD and DVD ('current' Precise live images). The result shows the additional stuff that gets installed to the computer with the DVD (confirmed with VM installs).

This list misses:
* Language packages (language-pack-XX, language-pack-gnome-XX, firefox-locale-XX), as they get installed in both cases, but do not need to be downloaded from the net when installing from the DVD.
* A few other packages that get installed from the net in both cases (dictionaries, Thunderbird locales, ...).

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Peter Mahnke (peterm-ubuntu) wrote on 2012-04-24:

we have changed the text completely the wrong way

http://cl.ly/3N2a0r1H3141440K2G29

when will there be a list of what will be on the precise cd?

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Hernando Torque (htorque) wrote on 2012-04-28:

Guess this is fixed with http://www.ubuntu.com/download/desktop/alternative-downloads