On Monday 13 March 2006 11:54, Azerion wrote:
Some SVG animations would be uber cool.
Also sound (that can be turned off by the user). I know that sound card detection and configuration is at the end of installation, but maybe there can be some separate auto-configuration, like the LiveDVD does it, especially to have sound during installation. How cool would it be to hear some music and explanations of the stuff shown on screen? You could even use a voice synthetiser, to keep the space requirements low.
I thin that is a bit to much. We do not want an extra cd (they eventhink about decreasing it to 3! :/ )
I'd like SUSE to be a featurefull, polished distro with lots of nice functionality and eye candy. That's going to require some more space and resources--fine, it's worthed. Computing resources will always increase and there will always be some people who'll whine that the next version doesn't work anymore on 486 with 16 MB RAM. Well, yeah, so? Progress happens. No Slackware for me, thank you :-) For archaic boxes there are other niche distros, like Damn Small Linux, SLAX etc. I bet that if SUSE would release some version with lots of multimedia, OpenGL desktop, impressive eye candy, all the bells and whistles that require a powerful computer, there would be quite a lot of people (great majority) that would upgrade their systems to be able to see all the nice stuff. A small but vocal number of guys would whine and moan, it's a given, always happens. But that's only a short term fuss, it all goes away quickly.