Am 07.06.2012 22:12, schrieb Javier Llorente:
Some of the options we have:
1. Saying goodbye to Live CDs (and building USB live images). Others have already done that, such as PC-BSD http://www.pcbsd.org/en/get-it/90-isotope-downloads
2. Removing LibreOffice and GIMP from the Live CD and leaving just English (no German).
3. Making the Live CD KDE pure, like Fedora.
There is a fourth option: 4. creating an additional live media flavour besides oS-GNOME-Live and oS-KDE-Live. This could serve as some kine of "minimal desktop live CD", with a second purpose as "comfortable rescue system". My proposal would be to put the following stuff on it: * XFCE (my personal choice, but to be debated. We could even go for icewm, but the problem we have is that we need lots of "fat" stuff anyway: NetworkManager+applets, a Browser, maybe an Email Client, so using the relatively fat XFCE might not add too much of an overhead). * a browser (firefox) and maybe an email client (thunderbird?) * the chosen desktop should be "complete" and "functional" (i know, there are different meanings for different people). E.g. keep the multimedia stuff and the music player included, so that hardware compatibility can be tested (you don't need MP3 for testing the soundcard, ogg is just fine for that). * rescue tools: all filesystem stuff, gparted, gpart, whatever. Maybe even some forensic stuff, Greg Freemeyer might know what is useful also for a "normal" user who has "just" killed his partition table and wants to recover it. * basic documentation, maybe the man-pages packages. Brian explained the reasoning for that quite good: "I happen to value documentation on live media specifically because half the time I'm even USING a live media is because I'm either installing or repairing or otherwise do not have normal use of the machine, which may mean no access to internet (at least via that machine)." Stuff *I personally* would leave out: * libreoffice * gimp * languages IIUC there is no real alternative to libreoffice for viewing office documents (some people realy write their tutorials in MSWord...) but then there's not much we can do about that. A picture viewer is probably helpful, but then XFCE's ristretto should do fine. Editing of images is probably not needed. Note that I'd really "design" this CD with dual-purpose: useful as a "purist", "minimalist" desktop for "small is beautiful" geeks and for basic hardware compatibility tests but also useful as a rescue system for recovering after you installed grub into the wrong partition. And I'd actually try to go for less than CD size. We don't need to fill 700MB, a smaller download is always nice. I never cared for or even thought about the building of the live cds. What do i need to do to start such a project? Can I test this in my home in OBS? Or do I need to use SUSE Studio for that? Anyone interested in doing/using something like that? It's surely not useful enough for me to do it if I am the only user :-) Best regards, seife -- Stefan Seyfried "Dispatch war rocket Ajax to bring back his body!" -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-factory+owner@opensuse.org