The Ubuntu developers changed their minds about the ISO size of Ubuntu

Mar 9, 2012 18:21 GMT  ·  By

Last year in November we've reported that Canonical decided, during the Ubuntu Developer Summit, to increase the size of the ISO image of Ubuntu from 700 MB to 750 MB, targeting USB flash drives and DVDs instead of CDs.

According to a comment from Canonical's Stéphane Graber on a recent bug submitted to Launchpad, the size of the ISO images for the upcoming Ubuntu 12.04 LTS (Precise Pangolin) will remain the same as in previous releases, fitting on a CD.

This change will allow the Ubuntu developers to add more packages that were requested by users, and not be stressed out about the 700 MB limit of the old and deprecated Compact Discs (CD).

"Ubuntu 12.04 will still fit on CDs. The only tweak that was done was on the exact size of what a CD is, where the old check was for 700MB and the new one is for 703MB as we found most (if not all) current burning tools and drives accept this." - said Stéphane Graber in the Launchpad comment.

However, we have to agree that USB sticks are very common and cheap these days and everyone already installs Ubuntu from them!

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