Canonical Drops Alternate CDs from Ubuntu 12.10

Posted by hanuca on Aug 31, 2012 7:39 PM EDT
Softpedia; By Marius Nestor
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Steve Langasek from Canonical announced a few days ago, on August 27th, a proposal to drop the Alternate CD ISO images starting with the upcoming Ubuntu 12.10 (Quantal Quetzal) operating system.

Four days later, on August 30th, the Alternate CDs were gone from the daily builds and will not be available at the launch of Ubuntu 12.10 Beta 1.

Some of the Alternate CD "hard to live without" features, such as disk encryption, were already implemented in the Desktop CD version. But some other nice ones, such as RAID setup, were dropped!

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Is it just me and my knee-jerk gut-reaction? BernardSwiss 1 1,033 Aug 31, 2012 9:09 PM

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