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:

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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,

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On Mon, Jun 22, 2009 at 1:06 PM, Chuck Payne wrote:

On Mon, Jun 22, 2009 at 4:00 PM, Joe 'Zonker' Brockmeier wrote:

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On Mon, Jun 22, 2009 at 9:29 AM, Chuck Payne wrote:

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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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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