RE: [opensuse-factory] Re: Results of survey on use of proprietary software in openSUSE
Il giorno lun, 09/07/2007 alle 09.46 -0400, James Tremblay ha scritto:
I believe a complete restructuring of openSUSE's delivery should be considered. To provide as little difference between the download and the retail versions as possible should be the goal, And there are differences. check the bug https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=282531 there are differences even the devs forget.
my proposal is no dvd: cd1 kde or gnome base install cd2 OS extension, rest of yast and anything that could be called as an underlying dependency to an application. cd3 server applications i.e apache2,mysql,etc cd4 server applications that rely on cd3 cdx0 more server applications cdX1 desktop applications, this could be more than one cd if catagories demand the space. It could also include the EDU-CD cdX2 non-oss cdX3 etc
This way a person downloading would only need to choose the desktop and what they want to accomplish beyond that.
To be honest, it seems to me the proliferation of CD's and it doesn't solve the problem. The user would have to download 1 CD and almost surely multiples CD's due to dependencies. I'd stick with one DVD with the current configuration and eventually _reduce_ the number of media by removing the 1-5 CD set, which I don't think is widely used. In other words: - _FULL_ DVD for both architecture - 1 CD install for GNOME and KDE With kind regards, Alberto --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-factory+help@opensuse.org
On Mon, 2007-07-09 at 16:20 +0200, Alberto Passalacqua wrote:
Il giorno lun, 09/07/2007 alle 09.46 -0400, James Tremblay ha scritto:
I believe a complete restructuring of openSUSE's delivery should be considered. To provide as little difference between the download and the retail versions as possible should be the goal, And there are differences. check the bug https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=282531 there are differences even the devs forget.
my proposal is no dvd: cd1 kde or gnome base install cd2 OS extension, rest of yast and anything that could be called as an underlying dependency to an application. cd3 server applications i.e apache2,mysql,etc cd4 server applications that rely on cd3 cdx0 more server applications cdX1 desktop applications, this could be more than one cd if catagories demand the space. It could also include the EDU-CD cdX2 non-oss cdX3 etc
This way a person downloading would only need to choose the desktop and what they want to accomplish beyond that.
To be honest, it seems to me the proliferation of CD's and it doesn't solve the problem. The user would have to download 1 CD and almost surely multiples CD's due to dependencies.
I'd stick with one DVD with the current configuration and eventually _reduce_ the number of media by removing the 1-5 CD set, which I don't think is widely used.
In other words:
- _FULL_ DVD for both architecture - 1 CD install for GNOME and KDE
Those people you advocate for with slow or limited internet connections are likely to still have a CD-Rom drive not a DVD drive. They may even only have a pII\pIII as well. -- James Tremblay Director of Technology Newmarket School District Newmarket,NH http://en.opensuse.org/Education "let's make a difference" --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-factory+help@opensuse.org
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