Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (4344 mails)

[houghi <houghi@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, Aug 11, 2005 at 06:33:15PM +0530, Shriramana Sharma wrote:
> 2. some intelligent packaging can probably include the vital packages 
> (for a minimal workstation) on the first CD, and the others on the 
> other. This way, those who are satisfied with the minimal workstation 
> (or perhaps those who would convert others to SuSE using a "see it's 
> just a single CD for basic features" argument) will also benefit, and 
> those building the images do not have the extra job of creating a 
> separate different kind of download version.

That is ineed what I was getting at. The first CD has all that you need to
run a desktop. If you want nmore, use the other CD's.
Now if this CD would be able to work as a live CD (not a live DVD) that
would be an added bonus to show SUSE to others.

It would require some rearanging of the RPM's over the different CD's.

During instalation you could then perhaps choose from singe CD
instalation, standard instalation, full instalation, KDE instalation,
Gnome Instalation and whatever.

This would benefit people who are not able to use the FTP instalation and
have no access to high bandwith. 

For SUSE such a CD would be very easy to add to magazines if the marketing
department would like to do so.

The advatage to the Marketing department is that they could add these to
magazines at a much lower cost, without asking anybody to change anything,
or at least not change anything major. They even could do a marketresearch
on what people want on their PC with priorities. That way they do someting
for you. ;-)

Also, what are the disadvantages of NOT doing it that way? You do not need
an extra CD. What you do need to do is rethink what should go on wich CD
and especially what should go on the first.

houghi
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