Ubuntu 12.04 LTS ISO Will Still Fit on a CD

Posted by hanuca on Mar 10, 2012 5:08 AM EDT
Softpedia; By Marius Nestor
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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).

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