Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-factory (340 mails)

[Stephan Kulow <coolo@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi,

You may have noticed or may be not, but I've experimented a bit with the 
factory live cds.

While the 11.1 livecds used some combination of squashfs+aufs, the factory 
live cds use some new, experimental file system with the working title 
"doenerfs", which embeds an ext3 image.

As this uses lzma compression, the size went from ~680MB to ~570MB for a GNOME 
live cd@ i586. Now I had several requests in the past to add additional 
software that I had to refuse because there just wasn't enough room on the CD
(and I need to extra MB as buffer because with compression the size required 
can jump quite considerable from build to build).

So I ask: what do you think I should add. 

Open requests are basically everything installed by the DVD and is not from 
the CD. This includes e.g.:

 - gimp
 - java runtime
 - beagle
 - the complete printing locally stack (e.g. drivers, filters)
 - 4 more text editors
 - 3 more shells

And there is the request to include more languages on the livecd. This is 
actually my preferred solution - as I see the live cd use case (smaller  
download) more visible in countries that speak languages other languages
than german and english. If you look at http://en.opensuse.org/Statistics,
this would mean: russian, italian, spanish, spanish, polish, french (as it 
fits).

Of course a third option is: leaving the live cd at 570MB for smaller download 
(and/or more free space on a USB stick).

Greetings, Stephan

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