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There is no longer a traditional CD-sized image, DVD or alternate image, but rather a single 800MB Ubuntu image that can be used from USB or DVD

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What the heck is that? A pig looking at the golden gate bridge? What does it mean?

I wonder how many people were still using the CD sized image. I'm guessing not very many, and with the size constraints, Canonical were probably itching to get rid of it.

You have a funny take on it, but it's actually a guy flipping over a table.

I always thought it was a person who crashed their skateboard into a wall!

http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/flipping-tables-%E2%95%AF%E2%9...

I would rather not have to resort to that sort of stuff here on HN.

> What the heck is that? A pig looking at the golden gate bridge? What does it mean?

This is the best comment I have seen today. Thanks for making me smile :)

Back when I did some small scale sysadmin work, I found that our CD/DVD burners were a lot more reliable as CD burners than as DVD burners. This seemed to be true both of the older Dell ones we had and the newer generic-brand ones. I had much better luck using CDs for basic installs and then fetching additional stuff from the net than trying to use DVDs.

- I also remember the CD burners to be more reliably, but that is my memory from maybe 5 years ago, I almost always use USB sticks these days.

- For local deployments (or even repeated installs due to tinkering-reasons), the best thing to have is a local http/ftp proxy (apt-get install squid).

I can't remember the last time I saw a CD, let alone touched one. There isn't a single computer in my house with a CD-ROM/RW drive, and even the ones with DVD drives don't have OSes installed with a DVD.

If you have internet access, Canonical have always provided a minimal CD installer (about 30Mb) that grabs packages over the internet. See : https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Installation/MinimalCD 12.04 is on there, and I haven't seen any announcement indicating 12.10 won't be. Not idea for every application (e.g. where you're installing onto multiple machines, will use a lot of bandwidth), but for 1 or 2 machines certainly an option.

Also users who previously installed using LVM or full-disk encryption via the alternate CD will find that these installation targets are supported by the consolidated image in 12.10. Finally! It was about time to offer what Red Hat/Fedora have been offering for ages.

The alternate image was useful for downloading now/installing the upgrade later. I guess the single image should be able to do that as well.

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