Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-project (59 mails)

[Andrew Wafaa <awafaa@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Mon, 18 Aug 2008 09:43:57 +0400
"Alexander Muravya" <alexmuravyasuse@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Hello, list!
> We already have opensuse for Asus eeePC but what about improving it:
> 1) We need to create "easy mode" (as it was realized in default
> Xandros) 2) We need to include packages for wi-fi and web-camera (and
> other hardware) in default selection (to enable "out of the box"
> support of all eeePC hardware)
> 3) Make ISO image for USB Sticks (because eeePC has no DVD-ROM)
>
> Second statement is very important because user need to download few
> packages to make his wi-fi working from Internet, but with the same
> time he has no wireless internet access.
>
> So what do you think on it?
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Alexander,

1) I'm not so sure having an "easy mode" replicated in openSUSE is worth
it.  I would much rather see openSUSE produce an image using XFCE or
LXDE.  These are desktop environments designed to be light on
resources, and as a result be speedy.

2) As has been mentioned some of the hardware is/will be supported
natively by the kernel.  However not all the drivers are completely
open, and as such make things slightly harder for "out of the box"
support.

3) I agree that having a USB image would be very handy, and there is
nothing stopping you trying this with KIWI.  I have it on my todo list,
but at present my list is rather large and I'm trying to get through
all items.

I have installed GNOME/KDE4.1/XFCE/KDE3.5.9 on my eeePC701 (all via
PXE boot), and to be honest I can't really decide on which DE is best
which doesn't help with creating an image.  At the minute, I'm going to
discount KDE4 until 4.2 when the panel gains the hide feature.  So I'm
now down to three which is no easier.  I would probably go with GNOME,
but that is only because that is the DE that I am most familiar with.
I am going to give KDE3 a good go though as I think deep down that it
may well be better suited to the device.

An alternative is to thin the package selection down sufficiently that
it takes up the least amount of space. This in effect would be a matter
of deciding what applications are necessary (web browser/mail
client/IM/etc) and then try an do a custom install with that package
set and see if it works.  This can be done in a VM and not necessarily
on an actual device.

Regards,

Andy

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