Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-project (441 mails)

[James Tremblay aka SLEducator <fxrsliberty@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Today, I sat  and read this entire thread and I have a few comments:
1) It is often forgotten that NO ONE produces a desktop DVD with as much
included software and utilities as openSUSE. Moving to 8 months cycle
just to support
new kernels and all of YaST2 is not that unreasonable. Add two desktops
and 3 Gb of software and well,
Thank you Team!!!!
2) if printing a cardboard box is keeping us from having a nice boxed
set then dump the box and shrink wrap a nice
manual with the DVD's  ( a sticker would hurt my feelings , make them
version agnostic so that we only have to print them when we need more)
and a support certificate.
3) consider separating the applications from the distro and spinning
regular "live CD's" that install as they do now. With separated
applications and a commitment to refining each "live CD" , it could
become an upgrade in place option instead of a patch CD and the BS could
be asked to recompile all the applications for the new Live CD as we do
know when we provide a repo for 11.0>11.1>11x. When a customer needs a
new DVD due  to bandwidth issues. It would seem that it's a lot cheaper
to burn a copy of the BS repo.  These "application" DVD's could also be
sold separately.
I know that a great deal of work goes into what is being done, but if
these minor quality issues are keeping us from being number one then I
say reduce the workload until the live CD's run perfect on 99% of the
hardware and leave the apps to "ADD-ON" media.
I repeat myself but the tools seem to already be in YaST to create patch
and add-on cd's.  Our example of how easy it is could make the
technology an outstanding feature that puts us on top.

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