[opensuse-marketing] A thought on another means to spread openSUSE...Virtual Spread
Guys, I haven't seen anyone create and offer a virtual drive for people to down load test drive openSUSE. I am willing to create drives for Parrellel, VirtualBox, and VMWare( for VMPlayer) and share via bitorrent. Maybe if we could do one for Qemu as well. Any thoughts, is this something we can do legally? What I was thinking was about a 2 to 4Gig drive with the live disc install, so that it a light footprint to play with. ---------------------------------------- The trouble with being punctual is that nobody's there to appreciate it. -- Franklin P. Jones ----------------------------------------- OpenSUSE -- http://en.opensuse.org/User:Terrorpup OpenSuSE Ambassador OpenSuSE Member Skype -- terrorpup twitter -- terrorpup -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-marketing+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-marketing+help@opensuse.org
On Mon, Jun 22, 2009 at 9:29 AM, Chuck Payne
Any thoughts, is this something we can do legally? What I was thinking was about a 2 to 4Gig drive with the live disc install, so that it a light footprint to play with.
I think it'd be a good idea. I'm not sure how many people would run
openSUSE in a VM vs. installing vs. Live CD -- but it's a non-trivial
percentage, I'm sure.
Sure, it's legal, as long as you stick to the OSS packages -- so,
shipping MP3 support installed by default is right out, at least in
many jurisdictions. (Yes, it stinks. No, there's nothing we can do
about it.)
Best,
Zonker
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Joe 'Zonker' Brockmeier
On Mon, Jun 22, 2009 at 4:00 PM, Joe 'Zonker' Brockmeier
On Mon, Jun 22, 2009 at 9:29 AM, Chuck Payne
wrote: Any thoughts, is this something we can do legally? What I was thinking was about a 2 to 4Gig drive with the live disc install, so that it a light footprint to play with.
I think it'd be a good idea. I'm not sure how many people would run openSUSE in a VM vs. installing vs. Live CD -- but it's a non-trivial percentage, I'm sure.
Sure, it's legal, as long as you stick to the OSS packages -- so, shipping MP3 support installed by default is right out, at least in many jurisdictions. (Yes, it stinks. No, there's nothing we can do about it.)
Best,
Zonker -- Joe 'Zonker' Brockmeier
openSUSE Community Manager: http://zonker.opensuse.org Blogs: http://blogs.zdnet.com/community | http://www.dissociatedpress.net Twitter: jzb | Identica: jzb http://identi.ca/group/opensuse/members
No Problem. That why I asked. I will set up some images that we can share. -- ---------------------------------------- The trouble with being punctual is that nobody's there to appreciate it. -- Franklin P. Jones ----------------------------------------- OpenSUSE -- http://en.opensuse.org/User:Terrorpup OpenSuSE Ambassador OpenSuSE Member Skype -- terrorpup twitter -- terrorpup -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-marketing+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-marketing+help@opensuse.org
Congrats Chuck! I think its a nice idea. Sometimes people feel some
fear about linux, but using VirtualBox, Vmware they can test openSUSE.
If you need some help, I have SuSE Studio access to test openSUSE,
pls open another thread or send a direct email to me, we can decide
about structure and finally make a image to people test.
I remember some years ago when SuSe created some flavors, like
"Firewall", and I'm wondering if we can make a LAMP Image with
openSUSE to people develop and test code in a 'openSUSE Develop
Edition' or something like flavor. Its not another distro or a fork,
its only a pre-configured image to people test.
All the best.
2009/6/22 Chuck Payne
On Mon, Jun 22, 2009 at 4:00 PM, Joe 'Zonker' Brockmeier
wrote: On Mon, Jun 22, 2009 at 9:29 AM, Chuck Payne
wrote: Any thoughts, is this something we can do legally? What I was thinking was about a 2 to 4Gig drive with the live disc install, so that it a light footprint to play with.
I think it'd be a good idea. I'm not sure how many people would run openSUSE in a VM vs. installing vs. Live CD -- but it's a non-trivial percentage, I'm sure.
Sure, it's legal, as long as you stick to the OSS packages -- so, shipping MP3 support installed by default is right out, at least in many jurisdictions. (Yes, it stinks. No, there's nothing we can do about it.)
Best,
Zonker -- Joe 'Zonker' Brockmeier
openSUSE Community Manager: http://zonker.opensuse.org Blogs: http://blogs.zdnet.com/community | http://www.dissociatedpress.net Twitter: jzb | Identica: jzb http://identi.ca/group/opensuse/members No Problem. That why I asked. I will set up some images that we can share.
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On Mon, Jun 22, 2009 at 1:06 PM, Chuck Payne
On Mon, Jun 22, 2009 at 4:00 PM, Joe 'Zonker' Brockmeier
wrote: On Mon, Jun 22, 2009 at 9:29 AM, Chuck Payne
wrote: Any thoughts, is this something we can do legally? What I was thinking was about a 2 to 4Gig drive with the live disc install, so that it a light footprint to play with.
I think it'd be a good idea. I'm not sure how many people would run openSUSE in a VM vs. installing vs. Live CD -- but it's a non-trivial percentage, I'm sure.
Sure, it's legal, as long as you stick to the OSS packages -- so, shipping MP3 support installed by default is right out, at least in many jurisdictions. (Yes, it stinks. No, there's nothing we can do about it.)
Best,
Zonker -- Joe 'Zonker' Brockmeier
openSUSE Community Manager: http://zonker.opensuse.org Blogs: http://blogs.zdnet.com/community | http://www.dissociatedpress.net Twitter: jzb | Identica: jzb http://identi.ca/group/opensuse/members No Problem. That why I asked. I will set up some images that we can share.
-- ---------------------------------------- The trouble with being punctual is that nobody's there to appreciate it. -- Franklin P. Jones ----------------------------------------- OpenSUSE -- http://en.opensuse.org/User:Terrorpup OpenSuSE Ambassador OpenSuSE Member Skype -- terrorpup twitter -- terrorpup -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-marketing+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-marketing+help@opensuse.org
Funny you should mention virtual images. I'm constructing VMware and VirtualBox VMs with the "pullin-*" packages removed for a social media analytics project I'm building. I was doing them with SUSE Studio but the "patterns" there don't contain all the packages that the regular YaST2 patterns do, so I switched to building them on my workstation. I'm only doing the Gnome desktop, and I'm adding some packages from the OBS repositories, as well as two open source packages built from the upstream source. So if there are virtual machines pre-built that I can use as a baseline, it will save me a fair amount of work. Or, more accurately, it will save my computer some work -- everything's done with bash scripts. :) -- M. Edward (Ed) Borasky http://www.linkedin.com/in/edborasky I've never met a happy clam. In fact, most of them were pretty steamed. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-marketing+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-marketing+help@opensuse.org
participants (4)
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Chuck Payne
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Gabriel Stein
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Joe 'Zonker' Brockmeier
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M. Edward (Ed) Borasky