On Sat, Jun 9, 2012 at 11:11 AM, Nelson Marques
It's somewhat buried as I recall ... and of course it requires a network connection or you have to do it over when the machine comes up. Ubuntu now explicitly encourages network connectivity during install but will work without it. Fedora sometimes asks for it and sometimes doesn't; I haven't figured out how it decides. If you boot it into the desktop and enable a network with NetworkManager, Fedora will remember the settings onto your installed system, which I think is nifty. ;-)
I really think the strategy after 12.2 should be:
1. Take a leaf out of Ubuntu's book. Provide the absolutely best KDE 700MB LiveCD / Installer we can and feature the heck out of it! Add an app store like Ubuntu has, even!
s/KDE/GNOME/g
I like GNOME3. I *use* GNOME3. But I don't see a huge difference between a Fedora GNOME3 and an openSUSE GNOME3. I think an openSUSE KDE can be sigificantly better than Fedora's KDE or Ubuntu's KDE, if only because of the geographic proximity of some of the core team members of the two projects. There's also some core "semantic desktop" functionality (Nepomuk) in KDE that hasn't been surpassed IMHO by anything GNOME, Unity, MATE or Cinnamon have to offer. I don't think you can even get this on Windows or a Mac - I've run that by the Nepomuk team and they say it's a lot of engineering work.
2. If you have network during an install, measure its speed and offer the user alternate desktops with a warning on how long the install will take. Offer the non-OSS components at install time like Ubuntu does.
What happens if you don't ? Which will be a lot of cases if you consider a 'worldwide' panorama :)
3. Provide the rest of the install media via our "other app store", SUSE Studio Gallery.
Do that, and prepare for worldwide boycott :)
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