Just curious about the size of the ISO.
For instance, Ubuntu ISO is 704MB.
What does SUSE offer on their CD to justify the extra 3GB?
papuccino1 wrote:
> Just curious about the size of the ISO.
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> For instance, Ubuntu ISO is 704MB.
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> What does SUSE offer on their CD to justify the extra 3GB?
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All the software in the official repo’s. Or you could download and use
the cd instead of the DVD.
The live image (KDE or Gnome) is CD sized, and the net install image even smaller.
The DVD image is rammed with software, only some of it genuinely redundant (multiple architectures, and KDE and Gnome, which probably most users don’t want both of). But if I recall correctly you are given the complete choice of what packages to install, giving much better user control, and the possibility of a more stripped down system.
You can, of course, install the CD image, then just install whatever packages you want through YaST / zypper - which for most will amount to much the same thing.
You can’t get 4.2 GB on a CD - It’s a DVD image you are referring to.
The suse CD image however will fit on a CD.
Ubuntu don’t even do a DVD do they?
They do a DVD. But one has to look for it 
The DVD allows for greater flexibility when installing. For example i don’t always want applications that are on the live CD so i would end up uninstalling them anyway but having the DVD allows me to install just what i want.
For a list of differences between the CD and DVD editions, please refer to:
Package List - openSUSE
It has accurate lists of all packages offered with various versions.
You right I agree with you 
@papuccino1
What is so great with Ubuntu,I try to install it the graphics I cant see anything. Is small like winxp and you cant chose what to install.
You should try out suse11.1 and when you try out you like it like me and others;)
Yep, that’s what I do.
I like the DVD image because I like having a bootable medium so that I can install on multiple machines, I can get it without download charge from my ISP, it’s very complete so I don’t use any quota to download packages that are not on the CD, and DVD blanks are so cheap now, in fact CD blanks are starting to fall out of favour and one day will be as endangered a species as floppies.
Of course if you have only a CD drive on the machine you won’t be able to boot off the DVD. But then again, you could boot using the NET CD and install from the DVD files served from another machine on the LAN. In some ways this is better because if you are serving the files from the ISO image, you don’t have to contend with issues of burning a CD or DVD, making sure that it’s error free, checking it, etc. You only need to get the kernel and initrd from the NET CD to boot successfully.
Dvd is cheaper then cd know
Not quite, but the difference is not much now. For a top quality CD blank, it’s about 40c but for a top quality DVD blank it’s about 50c. Don’t write and say the prices are different where you are. I’m not where you are, the ratio is what’s relevant. Remember that you have to compare media from the same manufacturer. In this case I’m comparing Taiyo Yuden media, which are archival quality.
And there is NO substitute for quality as ken_yap implies
digitalFAQ.com | Blank DVD Media Quality Guide