This news was initially announced by Phoronix. Later other people added interesting things that were left out by Phoronix. E.g. that the change for one was to

This news was initially announced by Phoronix. Later other people added interesting things that were left out by Phoronix. E.g. that the change for one was to push for support for xz compressed archives. That support has quickly gone through. Furthermore, that maybe sticking to 650MB is not that sane anymore, as apparently buying CDROM readers has already been impossible for many years in loads of South American countries. Instead, something like 1GB might be considered. See for instance the reaction from people somewhat involved in Debian: https://plus.google.com/110356875332222535709/posts/46wiyitnqpJ https://plus.google.com/110356875332222535709/posts/46wiyitn...